Report on Environmental Health Problems: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session

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Page 15 - The National Cancer Institute, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of...
Page 165 - On this, or any other nonthreshold assumption, it follows that even the smallest dose is associated with some risk. Under these circumstances, the exposure of the population to any increase in radiation should not occur unless there is reason to expect some compensatory benefits.
Page 16 - Service's repsonsibility for the development of a national program for the prevention and control of radiological hazards to health. This includes assistance to State and local health authorities in the development and administration of their radiological health programs; research in, and development of, public health measures for reducing exposure from X-ray, nuclear reactor wastes, and other radiation sources; research to obtain epidemiological data concerning long-term effects of radiation on...
Page 7 - McCabe, Ph. D., president. Resources Research, Inc., Washington, DC Ross A. McFarland, Ph. D., professor of environmental health and safety, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Mass. Lemuel C. McGee, MD, medical director, Hercules Powder Co., Delaware Trust Building, Wilmington, Del. Malcolm H. Merrill, MD,1 director, California State Department of Public Health, Berkeley, Calif.
Page 6 - June 1958, a panel of consultants on medical research and education to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the chairmanship of Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, reported the need for additional research on such environmental health problems as radiation injury, harmful chemical processes, accidents, communicable diseases, and increasing air and water pollution.
Page 6 - the Public Health Service make a thorough study of the environmental health problems and the most efficient organization of our facilities to meet these needs...
Page 103 - A. McFarland is as follows :) ACCIDENTAL INJURIES AND DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES ( Summary statement by Ross A. McFarland, professor of environmental health and safety, Harvard School of Public Health, and director, Commission on Accidental Trauma, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, Department of Defense, March 8, 1960) i. THE HIGH INCIDENCE OF ACCIDENTAL INJURIES AND DEATHS At the present time large numbers of our citizens are victims of accidental injury and death. Loss of life and incapacity...
Page 165 - The levels should be set so that the typical person in the area will not receive more than the established permissible dose when all sources are combined. 7. It is recognized that setting environmental levels involves assumptions and conversion factors to translate these into human body levels. These factors may be expected to change with new information, so the environmental levels...
Page 165 - Therefore, pending more precise information, we recommend that the population permissible dose for man-made radiation be based on the average natural background level. Although it is not our responsibility to determine the exact level, we believe that the population permissible somatic dose from man-made radiations, excluding medical and dental sources, should not be larger than that due to natural background radiation, without a careful examination of the reasons for, and the expected benefits to...
Page 106 - Currently, there are very limited laboratory facilities for basic accident research in medical centers or schools of public health.. Such laboratories must be adequately equipped and staffed. Also, it is of great importance that the work be carried out free from the pressure for immediate practical results or organizations having vested interests. In recent years there has been increasing concern on the part of physicians, surgeons, and public health officers for all kinds of accidents. Unless new...

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