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    "ocrText": "DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY\nCORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE\nFIRST AVENUE AND 28TH STREET\nJAN 25 1929\nNEW YORK\nJanuary 24, 1929.\nMr. H.H. Barker,\nU. S. Radium Corp.\n535 Pearl Street,\nNew York City.\nMy dear Mr. Barker:\nThe superintendent of the Memorial\nHospital has handed me the enclosed bills for radiographic\nwork on the radium patients under our care. The Commission\nfelt that this record is essential for adequate study of the\ncases and have directed me to approve the bills.\nI have a request from Mr. Berry that we\nissue a formal statement of our findings in these cases\nwith our conclusions that the patients are actually suffering\nfrom radium poisoning and Dr. Krumbhaar rather favors this\naction. Dr. Craver, Dr. Failla and I are not disposed to\nissue any formal statement. We feel that our responsibility\nis to the Court. We have already acquainted you with the\ngeneral result of our study, which supports the view that the\npatients are suffering from radium poisoning. We see no\nnecessity for issuing any signed statement to anybody. We\ndo not know what use might be made of such a statement, and\nwe do not want it published in the press. Will you please\nindicate your views.\nI have a letter from Miss Florence Holloway\n306 Langford Street, Asbury Park, N.J. She says she worked\nin the Orange, N.J. Radium Plant from 1918 to 1920 and that\nher doctor thinks she is suffering from radium poisoning. She\nwishes me to test her for radio activity. I shall decline, because\nI am not a practitioner, and I think the Commission should have\nnothing to do with this case. Nevertheless it appears to us\nthat we ought not to withhold aid from any person who is sick,\nand whom we may be able to help, and therefore we suggest that\nDr. Craver individually, with Dr. Failla, might test this case\nand advise her physician. Of course if we find her radio active\nit would probably involve us in legal difficulties, and I think\nCraver wishes to avoid that. Will you kindly advise us on this\nmatter.\nSincerely yours,\nJuring"
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