St. Coorgo = 6 | move songivive than any dawandod by the conventional public health assignments or the past. "Public health officors used t wait until people wore dying like flies cron soma disease before they movod in with control measures," observes Ur. Donald Re Chadwick, chiof of the Division of Radiological Health of the - Us S. Public Health Servico, “Now wo ara heving to devise moro and mor ro-. suwbller oo sanoa instruments just to find out whatanazerds may be iurking in our en- \ ~Avorment. Woeopo-cold nainto-femrncrocmbtloethrestsoeous-heaLthes ft is Dr. Chadwick's "Rad Health" division which has been examining ail of the 2,CCO youngstors now in the ten-to-eighteen-year age group in St. George and othor Washington County, Utah, communities. Cooperating in tho progvan have been the Utah State Health Department, the University of Utah Medical Centor in Salt Lake City, and iocal physicias, and school nurses. ' ou Pressure to conduct the tests came. from several quarters=-menmbers of tha Joint Congrossional Committee on Monie Energy, scientists at tha University Orva of Utah and the lato State SenatorHafen, of St. George, several of whose relatives had diod of leukemia since the fallout began. | Actually, a possible leukemia "cluster" has been turned up'in nearby Fredonia, in the "Arizona strip" north of the Grand Canyon. Edward Weiss, a Rad Health statistician who did much of the planning of the Utah study, reports there were four leukemia deaths in five years in this town of only 600, which is _ avout twenty times the expected rate. "Some were older persons with chronic lymphatic ieukemia, which has never been connected with radiation,” said Mr. Weiss, - GW although “and wa are still haggling over whether this was a real cluster." ,the seurch for ions of radiation injury will continue to include leukemia, as woll as bone cancer ane and possible cye damagog =1 the current emphasis has been on the thyroid. tterflymshaped gland in the neck controls the body's metabolic rate. eT. Y Anno DUS