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Records Series Descriptions
Argonne National Laboratory
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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 |