May 6, 1969

Mr. Albert P. Blaustein
School of Law

Rutgers University
Camden, New Jersey 08102

Dear Mr. Blaustein:

Further to the subject of your article "The Legal Challenge of Population
Control”, I imagine you will already have seen an article in Science by
Bernard Berelson” reviewing the whole panorama of possible legal and soci&l
controls. It has also appeared as a separate paper of the Population Council,

and I would urge you to get hold of it if you have not already seen it, which
you possibly have long since.

I have a favor to ask of you as the real purpose of this letter. That is,

to ask you whether you can help me find more detailed reports of the case
mentioned on the attached sheet, which is the legal foundation for the use

of chlorine to disinfect public water supplies. This paragraph from Johnson's
article has been quoted and requoted many times, but I have not been able to
find the original case reports. It is cited in 34 ALR 1337n, evidently as an
unreported case. The earlier proceedings which were reported in N.J.Eq. are
not particularly relevant.

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I am particularly interested in more detail of the master's conclusions about

the safety of the process and of the nature of the evidence submitted to him
on this subject.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics