Improving ventilation: Also, avoid moving radon from lower floors to the rest of the home. Tells about litigation which began in '27, brought against the company by five injured girls who sought a quarter of a million dollars each, and about the outcome of the case. The most common methods include: Sub-slab depressurization, or soil suction: This consists of a vent pipe system and a fan that pulls radon from under. von Sochocky died of radium injuries in 1928, at the age of 45. Martland & his co-workers on how radioactive matter works inside the human body. How is radium used How can radium exposure impact health Why is control of radium important Regulations Military radium Non-military radium. von Sochocky, who had left the company & now teamed up with Dr. Martland, the Medical Examiner of Essex County, inspected the plant, & examined stricken dial painters, & sought the advice of colleagues-among them Dr. Early in the 1920's, the first few mysterious cases of illness & bone injury began to occur among the dial painters. The girls dipped their brushes into the paint licked them into shape, each time swallowing a little radium. Read before the New York Academy of Medicine, Section on Laryngology and Rhinology, Oct. It contracted with watch manufacturers to paint their dials Teen-age girls were, for the most employed to do it on piecework bases. A case of antral sinusitis complicated by radium poisoning. The women worked painting radium on the dials. The company changed its name in 1916, & became the U.S. This documentary concerns the women who fell victim to radium poisoning in Ottawa, Illinois during the 1920s.
of the Radium Girls and the toxic and deadly levels of radium poisoning of. von Sochocky originated a widely used radium-paint formula, & the same year, he & some associates founded the Radium Luminous Materials Co., & established it in a factory in Orange, N.J. in a watch factory painting watch faces with glowing radium-rich paint.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the effect of radio-activity on human beings, & about the Atomic Energy Commission's search for the surviving dial painters, the world's first victoms of radium poisoning.
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