Letters Received, June 3, 1924

and 3051 HARVARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY 55 VAN DYKE STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS June 3, 1924. Mr. A. Roeder, United States Radium Corporation, 30 Church Street, New York City. My dear Mr. Roeder : Enclosed is our report. It has been a big job and has occupied us quite steadily since leaving South Orange. We believe that the trouble which has occurred is due to radium. We realize that no final proof of this can be offered at the present time but in view of material in the literature and of facts disclosed by our investigation it would, in our opinion, be unjustifiable for you to deal with the situation through any other method of attack. If you decide to use the preventive measures which we have advocated you will need the services of a physician who should know not only certain matters in medicine but who should also be a roliable laboratory worker. I believe that Dr. Royce Paddock, 1019 Broad Street, Newark, could handle the task. He works with Doctors Lathrope and Alexander who took X-rays for us and would have a real interest in the situation. Let him read over the report and then communicate with me as to his duties. It will not prove a serious matter financially for you nor a tremendously time-consuming job for him. We are working over some animals and will have additional matter to report before the summer is over. These experiments, however, will have no effect upon the precautions you should take at once, and consequently we are not withholding our first deductions and recommendations to await them. I enclose a bill which covers everything except the cost of X-ray work and charges for this I will send you when they come to me I am keeping a copy of the report and shall be glad to discuss any points in it which you wish to bring up. Recently some of my medical friends have taken me in hand and will not permit me to go about this summer. It would be a great pleasure to talk things over with you after you have read the report, and I suggest that you visit us here in Boston before the month is up. Very sincerely yours, build Drive Cecil K. Drinker, M.D.