ATTACHMENT 5

       Report by Dr. Patricia Durbin, Physiologic Division
         of Biology and Medicine, dated December 9, 1971,
  re: "Dr. Christine Waterhouse was a resident during the years
   that the Pu people were injected and studied...." Copy; 1 p.
                     ACHRE No. DOE-121294-D.
Report on visit to Rochester:

     Dr. Christine Waterhouse was a resident during the years that
the Pu people were injected and studied.  She studied under Dr.
Samuel Bassett who was in charge of the metabolic ward.  After he
left the hospital, she stayed on and is now the physician in
charge.  She made available all of the metabolic ward day books and
diet records and identified the ten persons who were studied on the
ward and obtained their hospital records.

     She believes that follow-up of these persons is an important
project and is willing to cooperate to the fullest.  She still sees
two of the people on a regular basis and has contacted the
physician who has been caring for the third patient known to be
still living.  She believes that all three persons would be
agreeable to providing excretion samples and perhaps blood samples,
but they are all quite old--in their middle or late 70's and cannot
travel far.  More important, they do not know that they received
any radioactive material.  She is of the opinion that to tell them
at this late date would do no good but might very likely do them
substantial psychological damage.  She is discreet and resourceful
and could probably arrange week-long stays in the metabolic ward
which is a pleasant place.  At that time samples, physical
examinations and perhaps some more unusual tests such as 18F scans
might be arranged.  However, Dr. Waterhouse does not believe that
cooperation could be obtained from these people at any location
other than Rochester, and trips to the Human Radiobiology Center
would be out of the question.

     Dr. William Newman, director of the Rochester Atomic Energy
Project, was filled in on the follow-up project and could not find
any objections to proceeding.  I assured him that I was attempting
to walk a very fine line -- to collect information and materials,
but not step on any sensitive toes.

     Dr. Newell Stannard, Professor of Radiation Biology and
Pharmacology, made the necessary arrangements for me to see Dr.
Waterhouse and several other persons who were wonderfully helpful. 
The records which have been pulled from inactive files are stored
on his premises, and he said I could call on him and his secretary
for minor tasks.

     Other people that I spoke to were Dr. Joe Howland, who was one
of the physicians in charge at the Oak Ridge Hospital (run by the
Army for the Oak Ridge employees during the war years), and who
identified the Oak Ridge Case, HP-12.  Dr. William Bale, who was
one of the administrators of the Rochester Project in the war
years, made the remains of his administrative files available. 
Review of those files led to the conclusion as to which case was
not studied at Rochester.  These files are included in the safe
storage boxes.  Dr. Charles Yuile of the Pathology Department
helped in the search of the Pathology Museum records and located
the autopsy records from which HP-11 was identified.
Patricia W. Durbin       December 9, 1971