ad 0 ita ve Deadly Chermical ||) Bikiat Death a Foun& Prof.y“I'suzuki commented, The “Bikini Death Dust” The concmnent is studying my yy contained the dang-rous ele- however, that due to the ex. ments Strontium-90 2 ad Barium tremely small amount of dust.! the legality of a recent unilater- To F Which have perctrated the bone available for study it could not. marrow and upset the blood ;be said that these elements were supply system of the two hos- ‘not present because they could Pitalized fishermen it was an- not be detected. The results of the chemical lysis so far show that there ‘ttle difference besides the Prof, Masao Tsuzuki told the presence of iodine,’ with the press Monday morning that nounced by Tokyo University Hospital Monday, small quantities of the feared snate tial used in the atom al American notice on the ex- Pansion of the danger zone in connection . With the test of’ American nuclear weapons, Deputy Prime Minister Taket- a. ora Ogata told the House of ,, ase ve Councillors budget committee laying Monday, nese h Leftist Socialist Tokuji Ka- structic Strontium-90 and Barium 140 bcembs_ dropped on Hiroshima meda asked if the Government Museu:r discovered through the chemical and* Nagasaki ‘in 1945, Neither zine nor silver known received an American notice on in earl, analysis of the dust, besides the March 19 that the United States Japa: be atomic fission products other elements alreedy ‘ an- to could be detected in the dust is expanding the denger zone were b nounced Saturday, at Bikini atomic test ground for this Those Were Zirecnium-95, so far, Prof. Tsuzuki said, iby several times. building Further experimerts were Niovium-95, Todine1$2, and Agriculture Minister Shigeru 2" house, ecnducted at Tokyo University 1 Tel Itium-132, Hori in reply confiumed theby scientists with the dust aud It takes 25 years for the » receipt of the notice, adding. white mice, radioactivity of S‘rontium-90 that he had taken proper steps An autopsy 12 hours efter to decrease by half, he said. for the dissemination of theThe radioactivity on the skin letting the white mice ingest information to quarters conof the two interned fishermen the dust showed that the organs cerned, * is appearing, Prof. Tsuzuki. were affected in the following Kameda wanted to know if rder: I announced, but the radioactive r ays have pereiretad the bloodBone marrow, kidney, liver, }i,, Hori’s answer meant that Japan recognized such unilateral steps fo.ming bone rrarrow, muscles, ,.. taken by the United States, There Was no radicaciuvity It was confirmed that most-’ detected in the biood ard urine of the radioactive dust passed’ The Deputy Prime Minister of the fpatioots but a very small quantity in their exe crements, This indicates that the rays have not o tafeinal organ d bieod vessels and give c for cotimism in their recovery. However, the b?ood-forming bone marrow have been attacked by these “bone-seeker” rays and treatment must concentrate on the ejection of this radio- activity from the body, The normal count of bone rearrow cells is from 100,000 to 200,000. According to an examination by Prof. Miyoshi, of six members of re Fukuryu throuzh the digestive system . repEed that the American notice and was ejected in the excreta. “might create a hew problem When injected subcutencous- in the hght of the international ly into the mice the order in Jaws, and also that the Governwhich the body was affected ment is studying howit should Was similar to when it was in- act toward such a rotice, a gested orally, Also the cxercta Beczme radioactive, This phenomenawas signifi-' L. _ cant, Prof, Tsuzuki said, in the: cure of the “Acute Radiation! Sickness” as it showed that the' “hot” elements could be driven! out without waiting for their radioactivity to decline, a The six radioactive elements discovered through the chemical analysis as of Monday morn- aru No. 5, ir count was ing besides the others announcsore to es and even | edsSaturday were: Niovium-95, 90 hours: fodine26,000. It is S.Ne,ed that “this 1131, € ent days; strontium-89, 23 days: strontium-90, 25 years; “ction of the Is wes i: :-Q by the vtium and 3: barium.140, 12.8 days; n 140, 40 hours, ~ monte ttne ",antan: bone marrow. But’ as the queunti Barium found in the %, ast” was greater than Strontium, Prof. Tsuzuki ssid it rcede he said that The two fish "Bov’t To Release ¥1.7-Hil. le their ejcction ¢ .<'er, As to their in‘ sol.crhat affect and én furth more suffer from ciniun tis and corneitis and }heave skin the intensity decr lower parts of i a The most EXD <d was the heed, then neck, armpits, both tards and ebdom “AS a pesult of e hair of ze “a cap the vity has, come dosnto The Government Monday deroced to release ¥1,7070% out state reserves to meet section the ‘current * h dust” incident of 23 finetmon in the Bikini Atoll H-bomb test. This emergency | the. state fund is exp: the iecident ;= Or 3 Critical, Reporis Br. Tsuzuki Dr, “lasao Tokyo Unive > : treating uo Fsherrmen ed by the H-bomb ni Acoll, reported to the Welfare Commirtae of the Lawer House Merill Eisenbud, director of the. currer. health and safety division of ' Japanthe United States Atomic, Atell i Energy Commission, arrived in Sel ran the Tokyo Internaticnal Air-, Pace port at 10 p.m. Monday aboard ' a PAA plane, Eisenbud Was @ Sti ty guard on his hurried to an Am«r.c: bassy car Waiting Jor out any cornment. Mer hit wiih- He is expected to Jsin the. ticnal ees: Monday that two or ihree of cad “the other «who did not’ the 23 fshermen are in a criti- fear that there would be a de.’ ‘ear a hat, two mll-Roeentgen cal con fon at [resent croase in the s:rount of fich in nlli-Roentgen per hour, per hour. Piof. Kimura a>@ others <ctentists conducting the tests are looking for evidence of cobalt, plutonium, or uranium but (Prot ‘grrve & ‘The|extre medical circles are the area affected by the atomic now hized to +e tests radizt‘on, thdse critical “Atomic” nts, ’ To help cure the “atomie’ Dr, Tsuzuki said, adding that patients complctely, Dr. Tsuzuthere is no fear at this moment ki urged the Government to have not yet been able to ascer- ‘that they would die in a few guarantee the living of their tain whether wy were Pre days. families, not to mention the sent in the dust.. Dr. Tsuzuki expressed his necessary medical expenses, Ke