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LIP POINTING RADIUM BRUSHES LED TO RADIUM JAW
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OKAY BACK FROM THE PAINT ROOM 🖌️
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PAINTING THE GLOWING DIALS 🎨
The Dial Painters Brushed Radium Paint Onto Dials And Instruments
One Study Follows 3,276 People Who Worked With That Paint
They Came From More Than 10 Different Companies
Most Of Those Companies Were In New Jersey Connecticut And Illinois
Employers Included The Radium Dial Company And Waterbury Clock
Of The Group 2,955 Were Dial Painters And 321 Were Dial Handlers
The Wider Workforce Also Included Chemists Who Made The Paint
Women Were 96.4 Percent Of The Group
When First Hired 37.5 Percent Of Them Were Teenagers
Nearly Half Were Hired Before 1930
The Job Was Considered Glamorous And Patriotic
Early On Little If Any Concern Was Raised About Their Health
The Pieces They Painted Were Small And Delicate
Painters Worked With Fine Brushes Made Of Camel Hair
To Get A Sharp Tip Painters Pointed Their Brushes With Their Lips
A Fine Point Let Them Paint Quickly And Precisely
Lip Pointing Meant They Swallowed Some Of The Radium Paint By Accident
That Practice Led To High Intakes Of Radium
It Went On Until Around The Mid To Late 1920s
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Some Dial Painters Took In Enough Radium To Cause Death
Death Could Come Within A Few Years Of Starting The Job
In 1931 A Pathologist Named Harrison Martland Described 18 Cases
All 18 Were Dial Painters Who Died Between The Ages Of 20 And 54
The Causes Listed Were Anemia And Necrosis Of The Jaw
In Necrosis Of The Jaw The Bone Of The Jaw Dies
Osteosarcoma Was Listed As Well
The Typical Period Of Exposure Was About Two Years
One Dial Painter Whose Remains Were Later Tested Was Amelia Maggia
She Kept Working At The US Radium Corporation Until She Died In 1922
Five Years Later In 1927 Her Body Was Exhumed
Her Sisters Had Joined A Lawsuit Against The Company
A Lawyer Named Raymond Berry Had Convinced Her Family To Allow It
The Goal Was To Learn If Radium Had Poisoned Her Too
An Autopsy Indicated Extensive Radium Poisoning
Samples Of Her Bone And Tissue Were Measured For Radioactivity
Film Wrapped Around Her Bones For Long Exposures Captured Images
Her Body Was Found To Contain About 48.4 Micrograms Of Radium
That Was About 500 Times The Limit Later Set For A Human Body
After Maggia Died Her Coworker Grace Fryer Had Back And Foot Pain
Later A Dental Exam Showed That Her Jaw Was Decaying
Her Dentist Suspected A Link To Her Lip Pointing With Radium Paint
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HOW RADIUM WAS LINKED TO THE JAW 🔬
By The Time Maggia Was Exhumed The Jaw Damage Already Had A Name
A Dentist In Orange New Jersey Made The First Public Report
His Name Was Theodor Blum And His Patient Was A Young Dial Painter
He Reported Osteomyelitis Of The Lower And Upper Jaws
Osteomyelitis Is An Infection Of The Bone
That Condition Was Termed Radium Jaw
A Chemist Is Often Credited With The Earliest Written Suspicion
Martin Szamatolski Consulted For The New Jersey Department Of Labor
In January 1923 He Wrote That He Suspected Radium Was The Source
Next Came A Report From Harvard Medical School
Three Of Its Health And Safety Experts Wrote It In June 1924
They Wrote It For The US Radium Corporation
It Was Published In 1925 Despite Objections From The Company
This Was One Of The First Studies To Tie Radium To Jaw Necrosis
It Also Linked Radium To Changes In The Blood Of Dial Painters
Martland Wrote A Series Of Papers On The Dial Workers
They Covered Exposure History Symptoms Pathology And Prognosis
The Diseases He Described Included Jaw Necrosis And Aplastic Anemia
Osteosarcomas Were On That List As Well
An Osteosarcoma Is A Cancer That Starts In Bone
