SEEING BUTTERFLIES.
RADIUM PLANT CLOSED. SUFFERERS' HALLUCINATIONS. NEW YORK, June 23. The United States Radium Corpor ation's great plant at Orange (N.Y.), has been closed because, during the past 18 months, eight workmen have been killed, and 300 are seriously ill, from metrathyl lead poisoning. One of the last>>deaths was that of a workman who was engaged in painting watch dials with radium. The lead plant was called "the house of butterflies," amongst the workmen, because sufferers have hallucinations regarding butterflies and other winged insects, the same as persons with delirium tremens see snakes. The victims pause while at work, gaze intently into space, and then suddenly leap into the air, clutching at butterflies that are nonexistent.
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Shannon News, 14 July 1925, Page 3
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117SEEING BUTTERFLIES. Shannon News, 14 July 1925, Page 3
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