* vf ‘ . . . ees . 5 pik tre i ~ aiatsca toa, inet acs ishct, itAl i tia nthedaseMnanSlee teatime, aes ecw NmTacS h S Se 46 Acknowledgments The cooperation of many agencies and persons was necessary to carry out these surveys success- fully. The authors are deeply grateful to many individuals, too numerous to name, for valuable assistance. Many officials of the Atomic Energy Commission, particularly Dr. Charles L. Dunham, Dr. H.D. Bruner, and many oftheirstaff of the Division of Biology and Medicine, were most helpful in the coordination of arrangements with various governmental agencies and in supporting these surveys in every possible way. Weare grateful to the officials of the Department of the Interior and particularly to the offi- cials of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, for their support and assistance in carrying out the surveys. Particularly helpful were Mr. Maynard Neas, District Administrator for the Marshall Islands, and his assistant, Mr. William White, and Mr. R. J. Umhoefer; also Dr. A. Hicking, Dr. John Iaman, and Mrs. Ruth Martin of the Mar- shall Islands Memorial Hospital. The officers and crew of the Trust Territory ship Rogue were most helpful. At Brookhaven National Laboratory contributions were made by many individuals in many departments including Medical, Instrumentation and Health Physics, Photography and Graphic Arts, the Shipping section, and others. We are grateful to the following people for their support and advice: Dr. Leland J. Haworth, Director; Dr. Lee E. Farr, Chairman of the Medical Department, and others in this departmentincluding Drs. D.D. Van Slyke, E.P. Cronkite, V.P. Bond, J.S. Robertson, R.A. Love, L.K. Dahl, G.C, Cot- zias, and Mr. W.A. Finn, Mr. W. J. Walsh, Mr. Clyde Sipe, and Mrs. L.M. Tassinari. We wish to thank Miss R.H. Straub for carrying out radiochemical analyses on the urine. In the Instrumentation and Health Physics Department, Dr. J.B.H. Kuper, Chairman, and Drs. R.L. Chase and W. Higinbotham gaveinvaluable assistance in assembling and testing complex electronic equipment. As in the past, the Departmentof Defense, particularly the Departmentof the Navy, contributed most vitally to the mission. The Pacific Missile Range Facilities at both Kwajalein and Eniwetok were of great assistance in furnishing necessary air lifts and loading of medical supplies and equipment, Wearegrateful to Drs. W.W. Fennel and W'S. Shippey of the Texas Transport Company Hospital at Kwajalein for their willing assistance. At Eniwetok, we greatly appreciate the splendid assistance of Mr. Thomas Hardison and others of the Holmes and Narver Construction Co. in handling and storing of equipment. References 1. CronxiTe, E.P. ET AL., The Effects ofJonizing Radiation on Human Beings: A Report on the Marshallese and Amertcans Accidentally Exposed to Radiation from Fallout and a Discussion of Radiation Injury in the Human Being, U.S. GovernmentPrinting Office, Washington, D.C., 1956. 2. Bonn, V.P., Conarp, R.A., Ropertson, J.5., AND WeDpEN, E.A. Jr., Medical Examination ofRongelap People Six Months Afler Exposure io Fallout, WT-937, Operation Castle Addendum Report 4.1A, April 1955. 3. Cronkite, E.P., Dunnam, C.L., Grirrin, D., McPuerson, 8.D., anp Woopwarp, K.T., Twelve- Month Post-Exposure Survey on Marshallese Exposed ta Fallout Radiation, BNL 384 (T-71), August 1955. 4. Conarp, R.A., Hucatns, C.E., Cannon, B., Lowrey, A., AnD Ricuarps, J.B., /.4.A4.A. 164, 1192-7 (1957). 5, Conarb, R.A., MEYER, L.M., Rac, J.E., Lowrey. A., Bacn, S.A., Cannon, B., Carrer, E., Ercuer, M., AND HecuTer, H., March 1957 Medical Survey of Rongelap and Utirtk People Three Years After Exposure to Radioactive Fallout, BNL 501 (T-119), June 1958. 6. Conarp, R.A. ET AL., Medical Survey ofRongelap People. March 1958, Four Years After Exposure to Fallout, BNL 534 (T-135), May 1959. 7. ConarD, R.A. ET Ac., Medical Survey ofRongelap People Five and Six Years After Exposure to Fallout, BNL 609 (T-179), September 1960. 8. STEINBERG, A.G., STAUFFER, R., BLUMBERG, B.S., AND Fupenserc, H.,Gm Phenotypes and Genotypes in U.S. Whites and Negroes; in American Indians and Eskimos; in Africans; and in Micronesians, to be published. 9. KrusxaL, W.H. anp Wants, W.A., J. dm. Statist. Assoc. 47, 583 (1952). 10. Wacsn, J.E., Ann. Math. Statist. 20, 64 (1949). 11. Witcoxon, F., Biometrics Bull. 1, 80 (1945). 12. Greuticn, W.W. anv Pyie, 8.1, Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Development ofthe Hand and Wrist, 2nd Ed., Stanford University Press, 1959. 13. Conn, S.H., Lippincott, 5.W., CRONKITE, E.P.. AxD ReizensTeix, P.G., Application of whole-body gamma spectroscopy to clinical tracer studies, Proc. /.A.£.4. Symposium on Whole- Body Counting, Vienna, June 196!. 14. Coun, 8.H., unpublished data. 15. Conn, S.H., Love, R.A., anp Gusmano, E.A., Serence 133, 1362 (1961). —