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    "ocrText": "right\nPage 15 -\n38.\nStatement denied. \"11 was in Boston, Harvard University, April 1925, to discuss\nwith Dr. Edsel the Tatra-Ethyl lead situation. Dr. Drinker was brought into the\nconversation, and after the lead situation had been cleared up I told Dr. Drinker\nthat I was going to study the radium question and asked him what his foeling was\non the subject, and what his findings had been. There was just a general discuss-\nion at that time.\nIn May 1925 at the head-quarters of the U. S. Public Health Service,Wash.De.o., at\na conference called by the Surgeon General to discuss the hazards of Tetra-Ithy1\nLead, Dr. Drinker asiced me how I was getting along with my radium work, and\nsuggested to me that I should get hold of his report to the U. S. Radium Corp., and\ntold me of his experience with the N. J. State Depart of Labor. and claimed\nthat the Company had not given the Department the full details of this report, and\nhe was very much afraid they would do the same thing with me, and suggested when\nI received the report from the U. S. Radium Corp.: that I send the report on to him\nand he would tell me whether it was the complete report or not.\nOn\nreceipt\nof\nthis report sometime in May I wrote a letter which is quoted here (quote).\nOn the steps of the Surgeon Ganeral's building office Dr. Drinker told me tlat\nhe wanted to publish his findings, and asiced me what I thought about it, and I said\nthat if he thought the Company was crooked, that I certainly would take it up\nwith the Company, and publish it in spite of them if he thought there was crooked-\nness - but that he would have to use his own judgment in the matter, that I didn't\nthink a medical man had any right to supress a situation even if he had to mention\nnames.\nBetween the conference in Washington and January 8,1926 I sair Dr. Drinker several\ntimes and each time the radium question was discussed. I don't know just\nexactly the dates it was discussed as I was up and back to Harvard several times.\nThe men I have talked this over with are - Dr. W. s. Bean, Surgéon U. 8. Public\nHealth Service - Dr. Trank Pedley - Dr. Arthur Pope and Dr. Pettit of Ottara.\nWhen the Dunn case was sent in it was sent over to the hospital for regular\ndiagnosis of the case. All cases that loolced suspicious coming to my attention\nvere handled in conjunction with the Presby terian,Roosevelt,Waterbary lospitals\nand in conjunction with the regular hospital staff..'\n39.\nStatements admitted. Dr. Flinn has never passed as an M. D. He never makes\nexaminations as an M. D., but where such exminations are necessary always has\nthem made by an M. D.\n40.\nWe have no knowledge as to whether or not the complainants new Dr. F.B. Flinn's\nconnection with the U. s. Radium Corporation, but do know that Dr. Flinn advised\nMiss Wiley that he was working in cooperation with the U. S. Radium Corporation\nto investigate this industry. As far as we know Dr. Flinn never indicated to\nthe girls directly that he was working in coopration with us, although Miss Freyer\nhad reason to assume such inasmuch as at the time she was at Dr. Flinn's office\nMr. Barker was also there. Dr. Flinn's connection with the U. s. Radiom Corpora-\ntion was with with the distinct understanding that t we would give him our full co-"
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