Brookhaven National Laboratory Marshall Islands Survey
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September-October 1979
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The third BNL survey of the Marshall. Islands in calendax 1979 covered
the period from carly September through mid October (please see enclosure 1
for itinerary of the participants ),
The goals of this survey were as follows:
1.
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complete the pediatric exawiuations which had been missed in
the May and June survey.
2.
To examine any available study members who had been missed in the
two previous calendar '79 visits.
3.
To followup on the 11 patients who had undergone thyroid surpery
in July in Clevelaid.
4.
To reexamine the remaining group of patients who had previously
been noted to have thyroid nodules and to make arrangements for thetr transfer to
BML. and to Cleveland for surgery in October.
5.
Yo provide dental extractions for patients in the ouler islands (a
precedent had previously been established for this type of care by the resident
physician, Dr. Knud Knudsen several years ago).
6.
Yo provide "reading @lasses" for presbyopie patients (a precedent had
been established for this action over a peritad of many yearsby the opLhalmologist
who had accompanied the major surveys.
7.
To begin the health education programs on the outer islands as
requested by the people of those islands.
Table 1 details the number of patients secu on each of the islands and the
type of sexvices rendered.