Argonne National Laboratory 
 
SERIES TITLE Health Effects of Exposure to Internally Deposited Radioactivity:  
             Elgin State Hospital Subseries 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES ca. 1950 ca. 1983 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Subject/Numerical (case files) 
            Alphabetical (individual subject files) 
 
 
VOLUME 2 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
The records were created or collected by the staff of the Center for Human 
Radiobiology. They document attempts to locate persons who had been injected with radium 
as an experimental therapy for mental disorders. The experiment was conducted in 
the early 1930s many years before the formation of the AEC or Argonne National 
Laboratory. The records contain information on the radium content of most of the 
subjects located, medical information relating to the subjects' admission to the state 
mental hospital, the results of periodic medical examinations, the cause of death for 
deceased subjects, and the death certificate. The files contain original records created 
at Argonne National Laboratory as well as copies of other records.  
 
 
RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material.  
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Argonne National Laboratory 
Environmental Research Division 
Building 202, Room A354 
Argonne, IL 60439