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DURBIN FILES
15-23 March, 1994
File drawer1:
folder "RE-16 H” pertains to CAL-1 and includes the following records:
memo from DOE-SF, D.W. Pearman, Jr., noting the receipt of thelist of
18 names,the paper titled "Update to 1977 Plutonium Injection Cases”, anothertitled
"Human Studies at the Crocker Laboratory”, an abstract of paper titled "Survival, Causes
of Death, and Estimated Tissue Doses in a Group of Human BeingsInjected with
Plutonium, and the publication titled "Plutonium in Man: A New Lookat the Old Data”.
Durbin's notes
graphs
draft of paper "Metabolism of Plutonium (Pu238) in Man by Hamilton,
Crowley, Lanz, and Scott
original notes and memos
folder "RE-16 H” pertains to CAL-2 and includesthe following:
Durbin's notes, including nameofpatient, dates of birth and death,
diagnosis, references to KGS's notebook and folder; mention of 14 children (one
retarded); mass absorption on Ce graph; summaries of cartons Durbin looked at, of tissue
samples; summary ofactivities around the injection of
; and pages from
notebook
folder "Pu238" pertains to CAL-3 and includesthe following:
Durbin's informational notes on Cal-3 (age, patient number, doctor
attending--Dr. R. Mullen. These include the nameof a witnessto the tracer injection:
Dr. B.V. Low-Beer.
Durbin's letter to Prof Oscar N. Ramabo,director of the AnatomyPathology Lab at UC Med Moffit Hospital, requesting information on the four people
injected with Pu and Americium. She notes that somepatients studied elsewhere were
misdiagnosed. Durbin hasthe dates of injection and the descriptions of tissue specimens.
Letter to and from Doroth (Axelrod) Heller, who was working at the City
of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, CA.
Letter to Howard G. Parker at Donner from Rambo: Rambo couldeasily
help find slides and blocks from the patients who received plutonium, given the exact
dates of operations and an indication of the tissues removed. UC Med has bound
volumesof surgical reports in numerical order of acquisition which include date of
procedures; and microscopic slides are stored forever. (Sept. 30, 68)
Correspondence with Argonnein regards to Cal-3 follow-up tests in 1973.
Notes
folder "Am [Cm?] H (95}) pertains to CAL-4 andincludes the following:
Durbin's notes on Cal-4. Cal-4 had lunglesions and lesions in the knee
and lower femur; he was diagnosed as having leukemia or sarcoma and admitted as
patient #16244 on May 19, 1947 to UCMed?--he wasa patient of the Chinese Hospital.
He wasinjected (intramuscularly?) June 10, 1947 with Americium and underwent
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Archives and Records Office
Human Radiation Experiments Search and Retrieval Project
Electronic DocumentTitle: Durbin
Anna Berge Research Notes
April 4, 1994
PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED