Argonne National Laboratory 
 
SERIES TITLE Health Effects of Exposure to Internally Deposited Radioactivity:  
             Occupational and Iatrogenic Exposure to Radium Subseries 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES 1915 1993 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Subject Numerical (case files) 
 
 
VOLUME approximately 1,470 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
These records were created or collected by the staff of the Center for Human 
Radiobiology. They document efforts to locate persons with prior occupational or iatrogenic 
exposure to radium including the study of the radium dial painters. They include 
records of these follow-up efforts including notes and correspondence; records of 
medical examinations of subjects conducted by physicians employed by the Center 
for Human Radiobiology; other medical records released by the subjects to the Center; 
records of medical tests carried out on the subjects (e.g., blood chemistry, diagnostic 
radiography, bone densitometry); records of the measurement of radioactivity 
in the bodies of the subjects; records of the measurement of radioactivity in tissues 
of the subjects (e.g., teeth supplied by the subjects, or if the subject was examined 
after death, of bone samples and soft tissue); records of the measurement of radioactivity 
in the urine or feces of subjects; records of request for the willing of the body for 
scientific study after death and of consent for those subjects who granted permission; 
records of request for exhumation of (long) dead subjects and of consent by 
next-of-kin who granted permission; records of consent of living subjects to participate 
in the study; budget proposals to DOE; materials prepared for presentation to review 
committees and comments received from them; published papers; records compiled 
by employers such as personnel records and workplace radiation surveys; x-ray films 
from diagnostic x-ray examination; raw data from analytical procedures; various 
schedules; and other pertinent information.  
 
 
RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material.  
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Argonne National Laboratory 
Environmental Research Division 
Building 202, Room A354 
Argonne, IL 60439