In New Jersey, for example, the case of Irene Rudolph led her doctor to make a report to the state Department of Labor, but they found nothing "that conflicted with state factory laws." Even though one consultant issued a warning that "radium might be behind the illness of the dialpainters," and that "every dialpainter should be warned," no action was taken. Some of the women and their physicians or dentists began to wonder if their horrific symptoms were related to the radium paint or the factories in which they worked investigations were made but the powers that be at the dial-painting facilities rejected the idea that the women's troubles had anything to do with the workplace or with their occupation. However, dial painters began to show up at their dentists and doctors offices with varying illnesses, including necrosis of the jaw, strange fractures and anemia. No one at the time could have predicted what would happen next radium was thought to provide wonder cures, was being sold on the open market the dial painters even had fun putting the substance on their teeth, hair, nails, and clothing. ![]() As they put the brushes into their mouths to make them sharper, they were also putting quantities of radium directly into their bodies. Where Moore's account is more firmly focused on providing the human face of this tragedy, here we get down to the forces that allowed it to happen in the first place and the attempts made toward reform so that it could never happen again.Īs is made clear both in Moore's book and here, the young women who worked painting luminous dials on watches did so by means of lip pointing. ![]() After finishing Kate Moore's Radium Girls, which was okay and did the job the author meant it to do, I wanted to read an historical account of this story.
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