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And two, the States are beginning
to teke up the cudzels by thenselves and the
A,E.C. might very well teke a weit and see
attitude toward it,
So far as the etetus of the health
of the miners themselves is concerned, there
have been a number of health surveys going
back to 1S48 rnd a very extcnaive one was made
the summer before last in which a Public Health
Service came snd took a hundred thousand mile
tour eround the Colorado Finteau and stopred
off, oh, the most Godeavful out of the wa
places and picked up a few miners here send
there sand accunulated a total of about 1300
miners out in the field and exemined them pretty
carefully.
Of thias group they found senething
in the order of forty to firty rho had some
evidence of lung disease,
They found some
evidence of ec cnerr -- of the types of pneu-
moconiosis which they did find and tubercu- ©
losis were relatively cild,.
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This pact eunmer the Public Health
Service ran another censua of the riners with
the cooperation agnin of the A.E.C. in terza
of providing vehicles and here again, the
decision hss not really been made as to what