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Therefore, Mr. Teas, Dr. Macdonald and I met with the people for an hour or
s0 that afternoon. Meny of the sane types of questions came up that have
come up in the past regarding their present health status, etc.
They were
particularly. curious as to why the AEC medical teem had joined forces with
the Trust Territory medical group and vented to know if this was an indica-'
tion that they were well and required no further study. It was explained
to them that since the Trust Territory doctors were their usual doctors, it
was thought better to combine forces for the annual exeminations and this
did not mean that further examinations were unnecessary.
The subject of the
coconut crabs was reintroduced end I essured them that we were examining
these crabs at intervals and as soon as they were safe for eating, we would
let them know.
This continued restriction on the crabs seems to irk them no
end.
There were only one or two people, chief of whom was @Q@BT the health
aide, who seened to be egainst being exemined. (He later agreed to be
exemined, )
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The rest of that afternoon was spent in setting up the laboratory and
orgenizing the school building for the physical examinations.
The next day
being Sunday, the exeminations were not started until Monday.
On Monday
morning the people flocked in in greater numbers than we could hendle and
their attitude was entirely friendly and cooperative.
There were only one
or two at most who would not cooperate.
We carried out the hematological
exeninations which included WBC done on the electronic Coulter counter, and
smears were taken and stained for differentials, besophil counts and alkaline
phosphatase determinations.
A brief history was teken by Dr. Ezra and
Drs. Macdonald, Iseec end myself cerried out brief physical exeninationsa on
ell the exposed people.
A limited mcober of urines were collected for radio-
chenicel enelysis.
There were no ceses of cencer, leukemia or eny other
sicniticent findings on examination of the exposed people, nor ~vere there
any elevated white counts which were significe
It appeared to me that the attitude of the people was, if anything, better
this year.
‘Tiere seemed to be some vague knowledge on the part of the
people of a possible suit against our goverrmment and this was mentioned in
the meeting referred to.
However, they did not seem to have eny specific
facts in this regard en? indeed appeared to be very ill informed ebout any
details of the suit.
Mr. Neas net ~ith the people on several occesions end inspected their
agricultural progress.
He was pleasantly surprised at how much hed actuelly
been accomplished and seemed to feel thet the ettitude of the people was
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much better then he had expected.
Ve sefled for Xwajelein the evening of the @4th, stopping by Lae Atoll en
route and arriving at Kvajalein on Ssturday rorming the 26th.
We caught
a Paveiian Airlines plene (which hes repleced MATS) beck to Eeweit the
following nicht.
In conclusion it appeered to me that the survey as carried out vith the
Trust Territory this year wes highly successful end from the point of view
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