SLOWLY DYING.
FIVE FACTORY GIRLS. EFFECTS 'OF RADIUM POISONING. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (UNITED SERVICE.) NEW YORK, May 15. The Statute of Limitations will apparently prevent five Jersey factory girls, who dying from radium poisoning. from making further progress in their suits against the United States Radium Corporation. The malady from which these five suffered was contracted between 1917 and 1920, when each was printing 250 watch dials daily, wetting the -brushes between their lips between the strokes. Last year the first symptoms of .poisoning appeared, hut the Statute of Limitations provides that only two years may elapse between injury and claims. Before the decision that nothing can he done for them, for their hones are so badly eaten that they cannot live another'year. Three had married since their factory days and have children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 May 1928, Page 11
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