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Los Alamos, New Mexico
1 July 1948
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Statement - R. W. BSpance
My first knowledge of any injury to.
cans epproxinately Tuesday, May &.
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The discolored srea of
hand was of a type I had not seen defore, ena I suggested to Mr.
that he have his hand examined by the Health Division in
case he had suffered a radiation burn.
did have his hand
checked end a blood count taken on the same day and another blood count
taken on the following dey.
The doctor in charge, I believe, was Dr.
Knowlton, who did not believe that the injury was a rediation burn.
So far as I know the doctors did not consider the burn a radiation
burn until the arrival of
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radiation burns.
a
with obvious
entered the hospital for treatment
at the request of Dr. Hempelmann on the 16th or 17th of May.
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&. W. Spence
R. W. Spence
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