RADIUM POISONING
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DISTRESSING FATE OF FIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WORKERS A HOPELESS DISEAS-E
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
New York, October 27 A message from East Orange (New Jersey) states that the third of five women who were doomed to death through radium poisoning in onc of the most sensational cases of industrial disease in America died here today in the person of Miss Grace Fryer (35). Deceased was 16 when she started work at the factory of the United States" Radium Corporation, and from then till now was under intensive treatment in an effort to stave off the inevitable '.end, which came to-day. With a steel brace clamped about her hack to lend support to hqr crumbling spine, she continued to work as a clerk to the last. 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, dampened with their lips the brushes with which they applied the radium paint to watch dials. The suit was settled with a grant of 100,000 dollars eaeh and 600 dollars annually. Two of the five are still alive awaiting the same end.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 675, 30 October 1933, Page 5
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195RADIUM POISONING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 675, 30 October 1933, Page 5
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