Report on Environmental Health Problems: Hearings ... 86th Congress, 2d Session1960 - 208 pages |
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Page 17 - The National Cancer Institute, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, the National Institute of Dental Research, and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness...
Page 7 - It isn't much, really, in dispute — only the land we live on, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the energy that supports us. Chicken Little is alive and well in America.
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 130 - SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH I am James L. Whittenberger, professor and head of the department of physiology and James Stevens Simmons, professor of public health at the Harvard University School of Public Health, where I am also assistant dean and director of the division of environmental hygiene.
Page 18 - 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 8 - 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 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 105 - Do you want to read that or give us the highlights? Dr. MCFARLAND. I would prefer to give you the highlights. Mr. DENTON. We will place your statement in the record. ( The statement of Dr. Ross 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,...
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 9 - 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.