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has probatly occurred in areas which produce milk that is
freshly consumed by significant
numbers of children.
There-
fore the published values of gamma and beta radiation indicate,
in many instances, not
inhabitants,
that she region
ia totally safe for its
but that local children have been subjected to
grossly excessive radiation dores to their thyroid glands.
Washington county, (tah
with a live tirth rate of more
than two huncred can cerve a3 an example of the problem con-
fronting communities around the Nevada Test cite.
At least
seven times since 1952, Washington county children received thy-
roid doses in the 5
to 106 rad range or higher.
Milk for
these children seems to come almost entirely from local
dairying.
Even in the largest town, st. George (pop. 5,000),
one dairy collects milk only in Washington county aud another
froz cows in three surrounding counties.
Hence, farm children
drinking milk from the farily cow were not alone among children
exposed in ihe county.
On May i9, 19593, in the whole of
Washington county, gamma readings from shot “Harry” show that
the minimum cose a chiid probatly received would be 50 rads.
St.
Gecrg@ge received 10C *o0
Hurricane showea 15C to
‘19 rad possible thyroid dose and
© rad values.
Later, on August 31,
1957, shot "Smoky" of che Plumbub series delivered an estimated 10 to 67 rad thyreid «se over an 8000 square mile area
outside the Nevada Test Site,
neluding Washington county.
The local fallout pattern from that shot spread significant
doses as far as 700 miles north to Rock Springs, Wyoming.