emcee,
MRC Department of Clinical Research
University College Hospital Medical School
University Street, London WCIE 6JJ
telephone 01 - 387 9300 ext 188
Medical Research Council
26th March 1973
reference
Dear Senator Borja, .
I am most grateful to you for sending me a copy of your
to Congress,
which
I have read with great
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 J 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 frequermtly - as a result of
low doses or small increments to a given dose.
It is possible however
that
Tne gel
‘ Committee's Report
interest.
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
This
them".
point clearly requires no formal
correction since
my statement is evident from my report,. but I
wish just to have a note of it.
thought you would
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
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Senator Olympio T. Borja
Congress of Micronesia
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