1.

The sense that the health of the people of Rongelap and Utirik were

of “utmost importance,"
2.

An agreement with the High Commissioner that a doctor from the World

Health Organization and Dr. Ezaki from Japan shoud accompany the Brookhaven
team at "the earliest date possible," and recommended the addition of an

American doctor from the U.S. Public Health Service.
3.

The Committee would seek medical consultants from Japan and the U.S.

4,

The Committee would make a trip to Japan to study treatment of A-bomb

survivors, and make a trip in July to the islands of Rongelap and Utirik in
the Marshall Islands District.
By the end of July the Committee had completed its travel and in
conjunction with the High Commissioner's Office had requested the presence
of four consultants to travel with the Brookhaven team on behalf of the
Committee as soon as possible.
These consultants were:
William S.

Dr. Haruo Ezaki, Dr. Toshiyuki Kumatori, Dr.

Cole of the U.S.P.H.S., who had traveled with the Committee to the

Marshalls in July,

and Dr.

E.E.

Pochin, Director of the British Medical

Research Council's Department of Clinical Research at the University College
Hospital ““2dical School,

London, England.

Dr.

Pochin, while not representing

the World Health Organization directly, had worked as a consultant to it
previously and was recommended by WHO.

Contact was also established with Dr.

Conard of Brookhaven, who subsequently indicated approval by his institution
and the AEC of the consultants accompanying the team and proposed a starting
date of September 7, 1972.

Despite some apprehension on the part of the

Committee that some of the consultants would not be able to handle the red

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