Showing posts with label Dies At 107. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dies At 107. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Saved By A Bad Taste, The Last 'Radium Girl' Dies At 107


Please click on the web-link below :-


http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-the-last-radium-girl-dies-at-107


PS
In the early 1960s I remember Ms. Daphne Attygalla, later Professor in Pathology at the Colombo Medical Faculty, gave us a lecture about radiation damage to cells. She referred about the incidence of lip cancer among workers painting watch dials with radium salts. We were advised not to buy watches with dials glowing in the dark - a fashion those days.