Letters Received to Arthur Roeder [A. Roeder], June 20, 1924

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Ex, C9 SCHOOL OF CV JUN 211924 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY 55 VAN DYKE STREET E - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS June 20, 1924. Mr. Arthur Roeder, United States Radium Corporation, 30 Church Street, STAMES New York City. RADITIM My dear Mr. . Roeder: I have been in the country for a few days, hence the delay in answering your letters of the 13th and 18th. We shall be intensely interested in reading Mr. Viedt's report and wish you would send it on before you come. In regard to your letter of the 18th, we are glad to hear that the State Department people are working with you. Since the problem is a difficult one I suggest you make sure that such inquiries as are made go through medical channels in the department and that the physician making them read our report. Of course I will be glad to be of any assistance but have little to add to former statements. I am sorry our report impressed you as preliminary and cireumstantial and fear that reiteration can do little to alter such an impression. With the exception of over-exposure to radium your plant at South Orange is hygienically excellent. We found blood changes in many of your employees which could be explained on no other grounds. Photographic films placed at various points in your plant and carried by workers have been fogged in varying degree and in short periods of time, and sweepings from various parts of the plant contain radium. The