One family received a paltry 43.75 as compensation for the death of their radium girl. Between 19, Waterbury Clock quietly paid out 90,000 for settlement, support and medical costs for 16 radium girls. "In a town the size of Ottawa that would have been very embarrassing for the girls and their families," he said. With no lawyers representing them, the young, unsophisticated radium girls had no hope of justice. "When they started dying, it was initially attributed to diphtheria, then typhus."Ĭompany officials warned that if the women pursued legal action, they would attribute the deaths to syphilis, he said.
"Company doctors would test them but wouldn't give them the results," Suppan said.
Early in the 20th century, women work at the U.S. In the early 20th century, thousands of young women painted watch dials with radium-based luminous paint (branded Undark).
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Officials later learned that when a person ingests radium, it goes right to the bones and destroys the marrow, he said.Īs the illnesses became more common, he said, women in Ottawa, as well as other cities, asked to be tested. Radium Girls Photos View all photos Movie Info. The progression was slow, with death coming in two to three years, he said. Symptoms began in New Jersey, he said, with complaints of anemia, teeth falling out, bone fractures and tumors developing on jaws, hips and joints.
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