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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
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