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procedures instituted whenever possible. The examinations show some findings persisting in the
exposed people which need to be carefully followed. These include incomplete recovery of certain
blood elements to levels found in the unexposed
people, retardation of growth and developmentin
some of the irradiated children, and pigmented
changesat the sites of radiation burns of the skin.
Recognizing the importance of these surveys,
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission have agreed that
annual medical surveys of the Marshallese people
exposed to fallout in 1954 should continue indefi-
nitely.
Acknowledgments
Companyof Texas, and Dr. Stewart Shippeyat the
Kwajalein Hospital were all extremely helpful.
At Brookhaven National Laboratory, contribu-
tions were made by many individuals in many departments including Medical, Instrumentation and
Health Physics, Photography and Graphic Arts,the
Shipping Section, and others. We are grateful to
the following people for their support and advice:
Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, Director; Dr. Lee E. Farr,
Chairman of the Medical Department, and others
in this departmentincluding Drs. D. D. Van Slyke,
V. P. Bond, E. P. Cronkite, J. S. Robertson,
S. Cohn, L. M. Schiffer, R. A. Love, L. K. Dahl,
G. C. Cotzias, V. G. Alcober, W. Calvo, and
H. Cottier, and Mr. A. Finn and Mr. W. J. Walsh.
Wewishalso to thank Mrs. G, De Paolo for her
secretarial assistance and Mrs. M. Dienesfor editorial help.
The cooperation of many agencies and persons
was necessary to carry out these surveys success-
fully. The authors are deeply grateful to many indi-
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We are grateful to the officials of the Departmentof the Interior and particularly to the officials
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands including the High Commissioner, Mr. M. W. Goding;
the Director of Public Health, Dr. H. E. Macdon-
ald; the District Administrator for the Marshall
Islands, Mr. Peter Coleman; the Director of the
Marshall Islands Memorial Hospital, Dr. John
Taman, and others of his staff; and the Representative of the High Commissioner at Kwajalein, Mr.
William White. Mr. Don Davis and his crew of the
Trust Territory ship Ran Anim were most helpful.
Asin the past, the Department of Defense, particularly the Department of the Navy, contributed
most vitally to the mission. The Pacific Missile
RangeFacility at Kwajalein was of great assistance
in furnishing necessaryairlifts and materials to be
used on the survey. Captain Paul Holmberg, Com-
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