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inquiry ought to continue
United Press International
DALLAS — A former Penn
sylvania state health official
Monday called for another look
at a possible link between an in
crease in newborn deaths and
the 1979 Three Mile Island nuc
lear reactor accident.
Dr. Gaylor MacLeod told
members of the American Pub
lic Health Association, meeting
this week in Dallas, that an inde
pendent, privately-funded re
search group should try to find
out why infant deaths dramatic
ally increased for a brief period
just before and after the time of
the accident.
MSC Town Hall
presents
MacLeod said that state
health statistics show newborn
deaths in a 10-mile area sur
rounding the utility roughly
doubled between January and
June of 1979. The plant’s crucial
coolant water — which prevents
the core from overheating —
leaked from Three Mile Island’s
Unit 2 reactor on March 28,
1979.
The figures show that for the
six-month period in 1979, 36.5
infant deaths occurred per
1,000 live births. But during the
same time the year before the
accident, only 16.2 deaths occur
red per 1,000 live births.
MacLeod, who was serving as
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Health at that time, said he be
lieved a new investigation of
health effects from the accident
is in order because of the new
Harrisburg, Penn., grand jury
indictment.
The Nov. 7 indictment
charges Metropolitan Edison
Company with a manipulating
and lying about leak rate data
submitted to the Nuclear Reg
ulatory Commission. The panel
also found the Met Ed engaged
in a pattern of criminal miscon
duct, and systematically des
troyed records that would have
disclosed the correct test results.
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against the Metropolitan Edison
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fessor of medicine at the Univer
sity of Pittsburg.
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searchers “without pressuresoi
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from the plant was 12 tima
higher than historic levels afl«
the accident. At least halfoftlit
cases, he charged, have newt
been satisfactorily explained!);
federal and state researchen.
“The discovery of very lo»
levels of radioactive contamina
tion in mouse, rat and rabbi
droppings on Three Mile Island
during the early cleanup process
is an omen not to ignored,” Mat
Leod warned. “In all probabi
ties, the increased cancer ind
dence will be difficult if not in
possible to measure.”
Noting his concern about tit
lack of medical researchen it
nuclear power development
MacLeod also advocated requir
ing that at least two of the fi«
member-Nuclear Regulator;
Commission be licensed
Thursday, December 8
8 p.m.
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