I regret that I am unable to give you the results of analysic

of urine from the 21 other patients. Knowing that those data would be
highly important to your committees in its evaluations ov the medical
status of these patients, we have offered to undertake radiochsmical

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urine analysis of all 23 pationts. The urine from only two patient
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patients from the Tokyo University Hospital wore delivered to us, but
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have not as yot received samples
at the Daiichi Hospital.

Rospectfully yours,

Merril Eisenbud
Director, Health and Safety Laboratory
United States Atomic anergy Commission

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