060 Carolyn Brown. 150r. 30 days.

Again -- a clear radiation death. Prior to treatment a

normal hemogram. Then on day 16 her WBC dropped to 3200 (from

5100), an don the day of her death to 800. Platelets at death

only 48,000.

I am not sure we know her relatives or whether or nor she

has an attorney.

##We also have a number of cases where early death

directly from, or very closely related to, radiation must be

strongly suspected, but where the records are either difficult

to interpret or are somewhat incomplete.

This is partly because doctors were getting a little more

canny in later years, with review committees beginning to look

them over, and also because they were becoming more interested

in finding a marker for radiation injury and for tracking

mental effects than studying blood effects, and no longer

really needed to document to the marrow failures and radiation

depths they were still bringing about.

They were trying to perform b. m. transplants, by no

means always succeeding. These too were clearly

"experimental."

We have a number of other short survivors who would

probably look just like Jacobs and Sprangel and Romine and so

on if we had their blood counts -- Louise Richmon, for

instance, Philip Daniels (099), Mary Hampton Singleton,

probably John Henry Wells. Lula Tarlton, in my opinion. some

of these medical records have, in fact, already been released,

but I have not yet examined them all; I hope others will help

in this.

##Consider these two cases:

078 L.H. 200r. 61 days. We have some record of falling WBC, down

to 900 on January 2, 1968, then "steady deterioration and

increase pain" and death in VA Hospital February 4 on day 61.

086 M.J. 100r. 20 days. Her History should be closely examined.

Blood counts dropped and she was given infusions but continued

downhill and died on day 20. The 100r plus tumor radiation

almost surely finished this woman.

We definitely need to see the full records of Phillip

Daniels (099), mentioned above, (the one individual who got

250r. (Some records list 230r, but that is a typo.) Also

Willie Williams (case 102); even though he got partial body

(200r), his blood counts dropped and he died on day 22. There

is good evidence that partial body radiation could definitely

deliver a severe blow to the immune system.

This is a case should that I think is definitely of interest: