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In the following accounts of what befell various crew-members of the
"Fukuryu Maru", it must be strongly euphasized that of all the 23 men only the
two Tokyo patients were adequately examined,
Even in tnese latter cases, all
laboratory reports are from the Tokyo University Hospital's charts, which were
generously opened to the A.z.C.C. physicians,
reviewed,
There were seven less than adequate case histories and physical
examinations,
tests,
The 21 cases at Yaizu were sketchily
The A.B.C.C. personnel were not allowed to perform any laboratory
Because of the restrictions in time and examining facilities, the four
patients with a white blood cell count below 4000 at any time (most severe
catagory) and three other patients, whose white blood cell counts were within
the normal range (less severe catagory) were examined,
Thus a total of nine
cases were Seen,
HASUDA, Sanjiro
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This patient felt well until 1 March 1954,
At about 4 a.m, March 1, 1954,
he saw a red flash on the horizon to the east (this was through the cabin window),
He imuediately went out on the deck and through derk glasses viewed the
flash, which continued to be evident for three minutes,
The skipper of the ship
thought the flash was due to an atomic bomb and, therefore, ordered the bringing
in of the fishing lines,
Five minutes after the flash there was a loud blast
and two minutes later there were two faint reports,
About ene and one-half
hours later the patient noticed a darkening of the sky and then there was a
shower of ash or dust,
At this time the ship was running toward the east at
three knots per hour; the wind was blowing towards the west at approximately
two meters per second,
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