BOOMED TO DEATH
RADIUM POISONING VICTIMS. THIRD FATALITY OCCURS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, October 27. A message from East Orange, New Jersey, states that the third of five women who are doomed, to death 'through radium poisoning in one of the most sensational cases of industrial disease in America, died here today. She was Miss Grace Fryer, arid was aged 35. She was sixteen when she started work in the factory of the United States Radium Corporation, and was until now under intensive treatment,: in, an effort to stave off the inevitable end, which came to day. She had a steel brace clamped about her hack to lend support to hdr crumbling spine. She continued to work as a. clerk' to the last. Five 'women' brought a suit in 1927 for T,250,000 dollars against the Corporation, alleging 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 ICO,COO dollars each, and 600 dollars annually; Two of the five are still alive arid areawaiting the same end.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 6
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