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    "ocrText": "Page -8-\nSochocky stated that when necessary he could use such screens as were built for Dr.\nLeman, but there is no evidence that Sochoelcy ever made use of such screens.\nFutthermore Sochocks handled large quantities of high grade salts over short\nperiods of time, and took little or no precaution himself which would tend to\nindicate that he had no idea that such small quantities as were contained in\nluminous material distributed to operators could possibly be dangerous. In fact\nSochocky tras so careless in the handling of radium that he suffered very severe\nburns, due to radium. In fact Dr. Lind told US that he had never seen a worse\npair of hands on any man as those exhibited by Sochocky. We cannot give the\ndate of this except by that Dr. Lind can furnish some concrete information.\nWhile ât is true that at times tongs were used to handle small glass tubes and\nneedles, the reason for this being not on account of any possibility of suffering\nfrom the effects of radium, but necessitated on account of the technique required\nin the sealing and preparing of these tubes for the trade.\nEven masics were\nused at times - but here again it tras not for the reason of any possible danger\nbut to prevent any draft being caused during respiration shich might possibly\nresult\nin\nthe\nlose of gmall quantities of the high grade radium salts as a result\nof dusting.\nDr. Sochock and lbr. Biletein probally compounded all of the\nluminous material during the period of 1917 to 1921, and neither one used any\naurticular precaution.\nIn fact they both pippetted the redium solutions\nwhich wera mechanically introduced into the lurinous zinc sulphide without any\napparent injury to themselves. All of the marial used in our plant, as well\nas the plants to whom we supplied luminous material, was prepared in this fashion,\nand the amount of radium so pippetted per year amounted to a matter of gramg.\nIt was after Sochocky severed his connections with the Company that 1r. Bilstein\ndeveloped a system of graduated pippets for measuring out the solutions to be\nintroduced into the luminous material mechanically.\nBilstein would\nprobably be the most valuable witness to confirm the data in this peragraph, almo\nMr. Viedt.\nOpr Mr. Barker has been engatred in the comercial production\nof radium since 1915 and has at various times cryetalized * tubeSof high grade\nradium preparations. He states that up untià around 1921 or 1922 that he used\nno special precaution in either the original tubing of such preparations or\nretubing in accordance with specification of custoners.\n19.\nWe will admit employment of the complainants as follows:\nMiss Orace Treyer - December 26th,1918 to March 19,1920\nvitise Katherine Schaub - Narch 22,1917 to March 19,1920.\nMrs. quinta McDonald, March 1,1917 to Varch 1,1919.\nMrs. Albina Larice - August 1,1917 to June 5th 1919.\nlirs. Edna Hussman - June 1,1917 to February 1,1922\n?\n20.\nl'e deny that the condition of the complainants was necessarily due to exposure to\nradioactivity, but admit that they may have had manifestations of illness on the\ndates specified.\nWe deny that we had any knowledge that the plaintiffs'\nsystems were imprognated with radio-active materials, or that any illness,whatever\nit may have con,resulted from their employment or radio-active materials should\nit\nbe proven that they contained same. The plaintiffs state that during their\nemployment by us they were in good health, and we therefore had no reason to be\nno\nwhether\n4-\nwas"
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