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The psychological and intellectual sequelae of childhood leukemia and its treatment were examined in 48 children with acute leukemia in long remission. Verbal and performance IQ values were determined in addition to full scale IQ. Performance was worse than the verbal IQ in children who were less than six years old at the time of diagnosis. Cranial irradiation even in repeated doses of 2,400 rads had no effect on these children's intellects. Most of the patients, however, showed severe emotional problems when constructing their "world" from given objects. The frequency and severity of these emotional problems could be much alleviated by regular psychological care.

Data on thermal water sources with outflow temperature of 30 °C and above were analyzed from the N-ern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia, S-ern parts of Hungary, W-ern parts of Romania, and NE-ern parts of Slovenia, altogether from an area of 99,347 km 2. The overview identified 771 geothermal sources; only 7 were thermal springs. The average well depth is about 1.2 km. About 13% of wells are younger than 10 years, additional 17% below 30 years; while 26% are older than 50 years. Average thermal water outflow temperature is 54 °C being the highest, 170 °C, in Croatia. Most thermal water is produced from basin fill sediments-Lower and Upper Pannonian (Mio-Pliocene) loose sandstones which are tapped by 86% of wells. The rest appertains to basement rocks-fissured, fractured and karstified Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Middle Miocene metamorphic, carbonate and siliciclastic rocks. In total, 72% sources hold water rights, 6% mining rights, 2% geothermal rights and 1% has no rights. The permits allow much higher water abstraction as currently listed. Usage for bathing and balneology encompasses 24% of all active sources (155), some of these also with heating (23). 104 objects (16%) are used for heating, also district heating (13) and individual space heating (3). An additional 10% (70) are used in agriculture, mainly greenhouse heating. There are 41 reinjection wells (5%). It is primarily in Hungary that drinking water (17%), industrial usage (5%) and monitoring wells (2%) are also common.

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