a al . . BNI || BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY AL AU : eat T SOCIATE BLY. 11973 INC. UPTON, Li. ASSOCIA TED UNIVERSITIES, gly? , { AOZTOS Ieee TrLerHoNe: ($18) 345. Osy7 PARTINENT _ BEST COPYAVAILABLE April nm Orv MEDICAL D 25, 1975 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Mme medical examinations of the Rongelap and Utivik neoole ware successiuliy completed, Wo find it necessary to bring three rew thyroid cases to the U.S. for further enaminations and possible surgery; one in tue Rongelap exposed group.and two in che Usirik enposed Broun hax and the peocoles* health seemed generally FOLDER #2 Dox By LATO J) 7 — ob BR MAMOKAUERE tour BOX Ne. } SAG coutection PAYA CKOK FiIceES REPOSITORY _4Dept = JOReee yp me HEC Ronyelan vere brought to Trinler for examinations ond wo were et: tnac after special thyroic examinations there was no evidence of cancer reaicaining, Mowever, a small growth was discovered in in the revion o£ the pituitary gland. Since she vanted to eo ochtse, for bixtth of nex child, we could not carry out ther examinations then Buc it is very imoortant that she sat specialized examinacions tn the U.S, and sne hes agreed to returm-possinly vith the three thyroid C2523. DL meantion this to you to ask your help in case she should not iuLly appreciate the importance of Surtheyr cxaninacions. Whea ve broughe tne cheae icdies to Tripiere thare vas a reesretfui delay in sertings them @dmitted to the hespicui, Lt ceems that a cexuain nuner was net civen Co us For entrance into cre U. S. and immigraucion neld us up 2a lone cica + and then tn spite of careful preparations for asinissiea to the hospital thece was a delay i atti them admitted. I vas most sorry for this and know the ladies were rightfully upset. I was siad we had pein: Wm 2SM £200 Songelap om hand at the hospital to be with tham 4a good bit of the time. During cur visits to Utirik and Roneelap it was apparent that tnere wos considerable confuslon about those eligible for benefits of Public Lav 5-52, At Utirik the unexposed people thought that they should be entitled to I.D. Cards and at Rongelao they wanted ald the children included. The Iaw and the agreement betveen ERDA and IT... states that only the people on cur examination list (a copy of which is kept at Najuro) are entitled. This includes exposed Ronzelap and Ucirik people and the special unéxposed Rongelan sroup or 150 pzonia, Therefore, no unenposed Utirik, only some of the unexposed Rengelap and no childran are included, We attempted to explain this ard also that: the unexposed Koneslap control greup vas established many years azo (1957) and the poonle on this list were selected to match for age and sex people in the exposed Ronszealap grouo. This roup is considered quite adequate © tor both exsosed groups and it has not been considered necessary to inive unenmosed Utirik peenle as controls, Tt should ba montioned, however, that all of these people have the benefit of general medical ¢ re at | : | 0 122 INFORMATION OPERATOR(SIG) 245-2123 | PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVE