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
physicians who need them for treatment.
It is
impossible for a physician to treat with best
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,
thereby hampering their work.
All data in the possession of the AEC or Brook-

6.

7.

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 dirming
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 physiCian examined their eyes in such a way asto be able to
recognize cataracts.

Instead I was told that two boxes

of eyeglasses were shipped to the island being of various -

models ahd frames, and the people were to ccome 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.

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