MRC Department of Clinical Research
University College Hospital Medical School
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Medical Research Councit
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26th March 1973
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Dear Senator Borja,
I am most grateful to you for sending me a copy of your
Committee's Report to Congress, which I have read with great
interest.
I noticed one apparent error in presentation.
On page
102 it is noted that "One of the Committee's consultants
estimated ... " a 3% increase in radiation, and I take this
to refer to my own report which suggests such a figure.
If
so, I ought to point out that the following sentence is not
correct since I neither did state that "such a small amount
was not likely to be harmful" nor would consider that there .
was evidence on which to make such an assertion, except in
the strictly limited sense that harmful effects are not
"likely" - i.e. would not occur frequently - as a result of
low doses or small increments to a given dose.
It is possible however that this second sentence was
intended to refer to a different consultant since I see that on
page 216 Professor Kumatori's report states that "However, the
amount of fallout /due to the following test/ was not so much
to injure them".
This point clearly requires no formal correction since
my statement is evident from my report, but I thought you would
wish just to have a note of it.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
“
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“Dee en
E.
Senator Olympio T.
Borja
Congress of Micronesia
Saipan
Mariana Islands 96950.
Eric
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