STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
300 PASTEUR DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Professor Joshua Lederberg

Dear Senator Boggs-

With all due respect, may I remark that we
have probably not seen the last of plague, and

certainly not of plagues.

I do not pretend to be making the magic key to
our problems, but I must add further that the
NIH's "good news" will not Speed us further ahead.

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N SSIONAL RECORD — SENA

Pollation of the environment, both physt-

cal and biological. By the way, I have

brought a couple dozen copies of the report

with me, and I would be delighted to share
| them with 4

; after you read the report.
‘ Solid wastes have been a Public problem
| Tong before the advent of our industrialized
society. Near the const of Maine, there is a
huge pile of clam shells left
arscotta river by some long-ago tribe of
Indians, These Indians, no better than we,
, had no place to dispose of their used shells,
| #0 they threw them onto a giant heap, that
is today has become ® tourist attraction.
' Today's wastes are not bo picturesque. But
; they still can be the souree of some humor,
' as that report I mentioned at the start of
my talk indicates,
It was prepared by George Dutcher, direc.
tor of the Public Works Department of New
Castle County in Delaware, and it contains a

“You know what that means, son,” the Fa-
ther reprimands the youngster, “Medical
School.” - :

The fact is that both are dealing with
man’s health and his survival as a civilized
being. Man surrounded by piles of garbage
is little better than man surrounded by an
epidemic of Plague. We a lapue. I
feel confident we Can Master our go. te
Problems as well. _

k you,

Yours sincerely,

Jem fey

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