Schaub succumbed to radium poisoning in 1933 at the age of 31. The universal horror caused by this case contributed to a 1941 bill that made all industrial diseases compensable and extended the time during which workers could discover the illness. This measure occurred too late, according to a two-year statute of limitations, to actually benefit the women who had suffered from radium poisoning. The League campaigned successfully to have radium necrosis recognized as an occupational disease by the State Workmen’s Compensation Board in 1926. Claudia Clarks most popular book is Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. Findings demonstrated that the radium Schaub had ingested at work was plated in her bones, causing necroses, joint deterioration, anemia, and cancers from which she and other painters suffered. Claudia Clark has 6 books on Goodreads with 1613 ratings. An investigation made by the Consumers League of New Jersey looked into Schaub’s illness. Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform. Although she had two teeth removed to ease the pain, Schaub was plagued by “gloomy” thoughts and bouts of nervousness. In the fall of 1923, Schaub began to have trouble with her teeth. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks. After the war, doctors discovered that these women were dying of anemia and a disease called radium necrosis (radium poisoning)which ate away their jawbones. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 - Kindle edition by Clark, Claudia. ![]() These women were directed to point up the brushes with their tongues which led to the consequent ingestion of radioactive paint. Radium Corporation in Orange painted luminous numbers on watch faces. Her death alerted authorities to the dangers of radio-activity.ĭuring World War I, young women employed at the U. Radium Corporation plant in Orange was an early victim of radium poisoning. ![]() Katherine Schaub (1902-1933), a watch dial painter at the U.S.
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