POISONED BY RADIUM

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1933, Page 7

POISONED BY RADIUM

WOMAN’S SPINE CRUMBLES

[BY CABLE —'PRESS ASSN. —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 to-day. She was Miss Grace Fryer, and 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 back to lend support to her crumblingspine. She continued to work as a clerk to the last. Five women brought a suit in 1927 for 1,250,000 dollars against the Cor poratlon, 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 100,000 dollars each, and 600 dollars annually. Two of the five are still alive and are awaiting the same end.

CURE OF CANCER.

LONDON, October 29.

The Medical Research Council reveals a cancer case, last year, in which a Sorbo rubber ball, containing a concentrated dose of twenty-five milligrammes of radium, was sewn into an internal affected organ, and removed on the tenth day. The patient has since had perfect health.