175 A 1 Jout there. We gave thet serious thought and decided not to do it in view of considerations. There were so many children present, and it is a rather unpleasant procedure. DR. BUGHER: Have you thought much of the possibility of tagging pram edures to measure red blood cell formatim 6 7 CDR. 8 DR, BOND: 9 10 Washington, D. C Alderson Reporting Company Cs “es - CDR. CRONKITE: The problem af a questionable the iron uptake that would be unconnected with the exposure 14 /to radiation and the difficulty to get a truly unbiased randow 16 sample of normals for comparison. 16 fought to be done or not. 7 I don't know whether it DR. BUGHER: Have you any commett? DR. DUNHAM: No, I think as far as the nutritional 19 status is concerned, when you left them it was not bad. 20 don't know what has happaed since when they are over on this 71 other island. 23 25 wy |}and whether we were justified in doing it. 13 24 . We thought about it, and thought it could [nutritional status and various things that can interfere with 22 blue tee We thought about it. 12 18 are CBONKITE: |}be done, but wondered what the value of the program would be 11 17 Peek rates? I Are they still going to eat in the style in which they were eatingat Quadjalein? CDR. CRONKITE: I hope not. They will be so obese that we will never get any blood out of them. DR, DUNHAM: I think if it is not controlled, it