Radium Girls

Isnt it scary to think that someone could keep a huge secret from you, a secret so big that it could potenti anyy kill you and hundreds of separate people? This adventureed in the 1920s and changed many peoples lives forever. Today, Im going to per centum with you something that had a big effect non still as u as a country nonwithstanding us as the Illinois Valley. My topic is the atomic number 88 Girls of capital of Canada. This is a topic that I know lots or so I did my 8th family history fair project on this, read a few admits about it, and even interviewed two of the celestial longitude girls.My ternary main checks will be what the radium dial company was, who the keep bushed(p) girls were, and the after effects of this calamity. My first point is the Radium Dial company, according to the book Deadly Glow, in 1922 the radium dial company moved from Peru Il, to Ottawa and leased hundreds of girls to keystone the dials of WWI and WWII clock faces. The paint us e was called luna that contained radium to make the watch effulgence in the dark.To get the dials perfect the girls were told to loaded the tip of the brush with their lips. Their boss failed to course credit that radium can cause anything from malignant neoplastic disease anemia, bone fractures and necrosis of the jaw, known as radium jaw. Their boss knew about the dangers but told them it would only make their cheeks rosy. Unaware of the dangers the girls would paint their teeth, nails, skin, and hair and turn off the lights so they could glow. This brings me to my second main point, who were the fellowship of the documentation dead?According to the book Radium Girls, after a year the girls started to strike up about jaw pains and their teeth started to fall out. They demanded to be seen by doctors, only to be lied to about not having radium in them and they were perfectly healthy. The doctors who power saw them knew they had radium in them, but didnt tell them. This starte d their group the society of the living dead the girls were filing for unsafe on the job(p) conditions. Catherine Donohue was the leader and she was one of the girls who were affected the most.Even by means of her illness she still won the exercise that granted all the girls $10,000 to split amongst themselves and all their medical bills were paid. Some of the girls benefited from the grapheme, but cash could never heal their mental and arrant(a) illness. The death toll in Ottawa was 35, and 4,000 nation. My third and final point is the airstream of the case. In my interview with June Menne and Pauline filled in October of 2010 both who worked for the radium dial company at this time divided a little information on just how things hanged. Even though a lot of the young girls died before they reached thirty, this tragedy changed lasws that ban people form working(a) hands on with deadly chemicals and serious to sue corporations for labor abuse. The building was disunite d own in 1969. The governor because appointed 2 million dollars to strip up the radium. This tragedy is still affecting Ottawa today, there was a screen out in 2007 for radium detection and to this day it is still scattered in Ottawa. gratefully there have been no other cases of anything like this.It just shows that something bad has to happen before things will change. On family 2, 2011 a statue was put up of a girl holding a limp tulip in one hand and a paintbrush in another to remember the tragedy. thank you for listening to my speech on the radium girls. I hope you learned my trey main points which were what was the Radium Dial Company, who the society of the living dead was and what the effects of this case had on our nation. Any questions?