be inconsistent with earlier dose factors. Later on, it is noted that unusually high levels may have masked findings which would have indicated that thyroid function was not normal in many of the exposed persons. Granted, again baseline information was lacking--however, considering the importance of the studies both to the scientific world and to the people themselves, it appears that a certain amount of overconfidence in finding negative results in the future prevailed, where prudence and curiosity should have reigned. Vinally, in the findings and information connected with the thyroid, the Committee is extremely interested to know if the person whose parathyroid gland was accidentally severed at the "pedicule" was ever informed of this fact, Secondly, the Committee is curious as to whether this incident had any connections ty with future thyroid operations being performed in the mainland United States as opposed to the Naval Hospital in Guam, Hopefully, the Committee's query will be | Lo Lo answered by Dr, Conard. Miscarriages, Stillbirths, Fertility The Committee notes that despite the importance of determining whether or not the incidence of miscarriages, and of certain stillborn infants, there was ben! i! Ll! id no intensive effort to have a competent medical person available to determine whether these deliveries were possibly connected with radiation. Again, the question of statistical significance must come to the fore--however, the Committee is of the opinion that despite the small number of people, this situation should have had closer attention. of effectsof The Committee understands that there are certain kinds radiation which can be observed in the products of miscarriages; examination of such may not have confirmed their relation to radiation, but it seeee would then have been a matter of record, a record which could have been used to indicate that there possibly were no radiation-induced effects, 149