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6 April 1954

I rogret that I an unable to give you the results of analysos

of urine from the 21 other p»ticnts,

Knowing that those cate woulc be

hishly important to your committce in its evaluations of the modical

stetus of thoso paticnts, wo have offcrod to uncortake radiochemical

urine analysis of ell 23 pationts, The urino from only two pationts
has Deen Colivorec to us in time to permit shiomont tc tho Statos and
enclysis by this datc. More recently, semples from five accitional
peticnts from the Tokyo University Hospitel werc delivercd to us, but wo
heave not as yot rcecived samzics fron the 16 paticnte now hospitelized
at the Daiichi Eospital,
’
Rospectfully yours,

Morril Bison>ud
Director, Eoalth anc Safcty Laboratory
Unitec Statcs Atomic Encrzy Commission

Ma/ens/hee
CC:

Dr. Nakeiczumi
br, Kakehi

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