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Full hospital transcripts of every patient seen
at Tripler, Brookhaven Institute, the Cleveland
General Hcspital, or at Guam should be obtained
and these full records should be returried to
Narjuro for the investigation and the study of
physicians who need them for txea’tment. It is
impossible for a physician to treat with best
results patients h-ithout fully knowing prior
records, and from my visit to the hospital I
learned rather clearly that the records from
Hawaii or from the United States were not getting
back to the several physicians at the hospital,
thereby hampering their work.
All data in the possession of the AEC or Brookha.ven on t}ie radioactivity of the soil and most
particularly the foodstuffs of the island should
be revealed fully to the ?.?arshallIsland authOllties.
A study of the migration of larger fishes and
birds between” the islands possibly carrying
food-chain radioactivity should be undertaken.
(I understand lobsters migrate communally relatively
long distances. ) Tuna and large fish
swin from atoll to atoll.
I am going to state clearly however at this point
and in this context, t~at in some circumstances I have
not been impressed with the assid-~ity of the Trust Treaty
physicians or the Atomic Energy Co2nission physicians.
For example, there was a general coinp~ain$ of dimming
vision some five or six years ago on Utric, probably due
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to an increased incidence of cataracts.
people from Utric that I spoke to told me that any physician examined their eyes in such a way as to be able to
Instead I k’as told that two boxes
recognize cataracts.
of eyeglasses were shipped to the island being of various
models and frames, and the people were to come in and
choose whichever eyeglass seemed to help them. And this
was the sum of the investigation and txeatment of the eye
problems, -- of what I think is a unique epidemic of
cataracts.
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