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Dr. Tayior. Thatis right.
Mr. Ramey. Do you have some newerstudies that you can cite?
Dr. Taytor. These figures, which probably should not be regarded
as official at this point, come from studies made for the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and are considered to be quitereliable.
Representative Pricer. Have we made any evaluation of our own
since 1956 ?
Dr. Taytor. This has been done in a few isolated cases and those
results, I believe, have been fed into the U.N.studies.
Representative Hosmer. Can you differentiate between the medical
exposures of populations in advanced countries such as the United
States as contrasted to such countries as Communist China where the
radiation equipmentis few and far between.
Dr. Taytor. I don’t know a thing about Communist China or of
many other countries.
Representative Hosmer. Whatis the 10- to 50-percent figure then?
The whole population of the world or that of an advanced country
or what?
Dr. Taytor. Those are estimates made by a numberof different
countries including some estimates madein this country.
Senator ANpERson. It just brings out what Mr. Hosmer wassaying. Are these based on thefigures of the United States or are they
United Nations figures which take into consideration the fact that
there is very little X-ray equipment in many countries of the world?
I saw some United Nations figures on the extension of life that do not
check with thefigures of this country, England, Norway, or Denmark.
Is this based on how muchthereis in certain south African or middle
African countries all lumped together? Is that why you changed
the figures?
Dr. Taytor. No, indeed. This is on the basis of a better analysis
of the information that is available. These studies have come from
countries like Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, France. I am
not sure of all the countries. There may be someothers; including the
United States and some information from the Soviet Union,I believe.
Representative Price. Doctor, the other backgroundfigures we were
talking about previously before your evaluation since 1956, what were
they? Werethey world figures or U.S. figures?
Dr. Tartor. Those were U.S. figures. At that time the figures
for the United Kingdom were considerably less than the estimate
made for the United States. In fact, they were down somewhere near
the bottomof this range I mentioned.
Representative Price. Do you have pre-1956 figures for other nations that you could supply for the record ?
Dr. Taytor. I don’t believe that I know of any. There may he
some, but I don’t know about them.
Mr. Ramey. Weprobably have somein our previous hearing record.
AsT recall, we had some.
Dr. Taytor. The only study that I knowof in the 1956 period was
Laughlin-Pullman study in this country and the British Medical Research Council studyin the United Kingdom.
Representative Hosmer. Doctor, some time ago a witness from the
AMAappeared before us and after some very severe cross-examina-