Studying Effects Of Atomic Radiation
WASHINGTON, August 31
The United States Atomic Energy Commission today announced plans for a long-range study of the effects of atomic radiation on heredity among offspring of the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The study will be made jointly by the commission and the National Research Council. Research workers will try to discover the effect of atomic radiation on blood cells, on the physical growth of children, on the mechanisms of heredity and the development of different pathological conditions. Dr Lewis Weed, chairman of the council’s division of medical sciences, said today that there had been erroneous statements about the frequency of abnormalities among newly-born children in Hiroshima ana Nagasaki, but at present there was no reliable information to that effect.
SOCCER.— McBride, who has recovered from an infected shin, has arrived at Brisbane and is included in the New Zealand schoolboy Soccer team against Queensland today. The team is: Gubb, Fereuson, Battershill, Ward, Wells, Andersonf Whyte, Smith, Mcßride, Dickens and Kendrick.
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Northern Advocate, 2 September 1947, Page 5
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