RADIUM POISONING
THE INEVITABLE END
A FACTORY TRAGEDY
(Received October 28, 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 27. A messago from East Orange, New Jersey, states that tho third of the five women doomed to death through radium poisoning in one of the most sensational cases of industrial disease in America died today, in the person of Miss Grace Fryer, aged 35 years. She was sixteen when she started work in the factory of tho United States Radium Corporation. She was, until recently, under intensive treatment in ] an effort to stave off the inevitable end which came today. With a steel braco clamped about her back to lend support to her crumbling spine she ( continued to work as a clerk to the last. Tho five women brought a suit in 1927 for 1,250,000 .dollars against the corporation for radium poisoning, having, after the custom of operatives in the factory, damped with their lips the brushes with which they applied radium paint to watch dials. The suit was settled with a grant of' a hundred thousand dollars each and 600 dollars annually. Two of the five are still alive awaiting the same end.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 10
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191RADIUM POISONING Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 10
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