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Columbia. mo. may 30, 1931. my dear your Howard special came about an hour ago. d shall the take questions submit. I sent you full were report a few minutes before bed time to answer the some of I including hope it reached you to day. dt will prove attention engrossing you tables within an hour after your came the usual sabbath attention, to your flowers reading and will keep you from giving and lawn. It seems to me it would be haz ardous and underside it would kill my standing with the Health cent Service, act to circulate the report among the clock companies, for and would doubtless close this avenue of note to Dr Leake will accomplish something. you in the future. I am loping that the enclosed when return the report to me please make comments on marked passages which you find are open to crit- icism, and I shall give same careful consideration in formulating my suggestions to Dr Leake Judging its from Dr L's letter of transmittal the report has reached finished form andis practically in press. the subjects employed since 1926 are grouped sep- arately in one of the tables and here the trend of the in the years 1918 to 1926 This raises the question gain in radioactivity appears to be fully as fast as at once whether or not the licking of brushes was the main factor in radium poisoning. The omession of girls froner those examined who left the work or who died may depress the clerve unduly for the long time workers as you point out The data obtained by Knowles and his associates. address edly oactive under present operation. with the exception of show that the workers gradually become radi small, and the activity of the group as a whole not alarming a few aporadic cases of high activity, the rate of increase is if my memory serves me night This should be

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