5. Full hospital transcripts of every patient seen at Tripler, Brookhaven Institute, the Cleveland © General Hospital, or at Guam should be obtained and these full records should be returned to Marjuro for the investigation and the study of It is physicians who need them for treatment. best with impossible for a physician to treat results patients without fully knowing prior records, and from my visit to the hospital I learned rather clearly that the records from Hawaii or from the United States were not getting back to the several physicians at the hospital, 6. 7. thereby hampering their work. All data in the possession of the AEC or Brook- haven on the radioactivity of the soil and most particularly the foodstuffs of the island should be revealed fully to the Marshall Island authorities. A study of the migration of larger fishes and birds between the islands possibly carrying’ food-chain radioactivity should be undertaken. (I understand lobsters migrate communally rela_ tively long distances.) Tuna and large fish swin from atoll to atoll. I am going to state clearly however at this point and in this context, that in some circumstances I have not been impressed with the assiduity of the Trust Treaty physicians or the Atomic Energy Commission physicians. For example, there was a general complaint of dinming vision some five or six years ago on Utric, probably due to an increased incidence of cataracts. None of the people from Utric that I spoke to told me that any physiclan examined their eyes in such a way as to be able to recognize cataracts. Instead I was told that two boxes of eyeglasses were shipped to the island being of various - models and frames, and the people were to ccme in and choose whichever eyeglass seemed to help them. And this was the sum of the investigation and treatment of the eye problems, -- of what I think is a unique epidemic of cataracts. - 10 - /t