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...first seven, all detected since 1966, were reported a year ago by Drs. Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully of Boston's Vincent Memorial Hospital, the women's division of Massachusetts General. Another Boston doctor discovered an eighth case. The doctors then could not even hazard a guess to explain this sudden cluster of rarities. Moreover, all but one of the cancers were of a cell type different from that found in older women. So Herbst teamed with fellow Gynecologist Howard Ulfelder and Disease Detective David Poskanzer to do some backtracking...
...water include the viruses that may cause conjunctivitis, laryngitis, sinusitis and hepatitis. They can also include the even more threatening bacteria that cause typhoid, cholera and leptospirosis, a sometimes serious infection carried by animal urine into streams, lakes and stagnant water. Indeed, small rural ponds can create a special hazard for swimmers. Without an adequate water flow to wash away debris, they may become breeding grounds for a heavy concentration of pathological organisms...
Steiner said yesterday that Harvard had decided not to fill in the pond completely and drain the surrounding marsh because "it didn't seem necessary and it was terribly expensive. I think from a safety point of view this takes care of the hazard...
Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Affairs, met yesterday afternoon with Boston Fire Commissioner James H. Kelly to discuss several proposed ways of minimizing the hazard to neighborhood children...
...reactors are the alternative kind of reactors in current use) has a record of annually emitting hundreds of thousands of curies of radiation into the environment. Pressurized water reactors, on the other hand, emit hardly any radiation. Why was the more polluting kind of reactor chosen? What kind of hazard is posed by the emissions of the boiling water reactor? These are the kind of questions that the public should ask of the power company before the reactor is allowed to operate. Yet no opportunity to raise such questions will be had if the date of May 23 quietly slips...