eeeres ae x + a BETA AND GAMMA. PARA 35. IN VIEW OF THE ASOVE FINDINGS, NO FURTHER DECONTAMINATION PROCEDURES WERE CONSIDERED NECESSARY OR ADVISED. ¢ AS A NOTE OF: INTEREST, A BRASS COLORED FUSE SETTING RING AND GUNSIGHT ON THE SAME ‘GUN ON THE SATUMA SHOWED A 10 MILLIROENTGEN PER HOUR, BETA “AND GAMMAs AND A 1.2 GAMMA MILLIROENTGEN PER HOUR READING. BOTH OF THESE WERE COVERED BY CANVAS DURING TKE ENTIRE VOYACEe THE SATUMA CAPTAIN HUMOROUSLY OFFERED THE INFORMATION THAT THIS METAL WAS OF SICKNESS GY DR HASZLER OR BY US FOLLOWING OUR LATER EXAMMINATLONe DETAILED“REPORTS PART OF WRITTEN REPORT TO FOLLOWS. PARA 56 ORIGINAL RECORDS AND REPORTS OF DR HASZLER, IN OUR* POSSESSION, INCLUDE ‘TOTAL WHITE BLOOD COUNT AND URINALYSIS FOR ALL PERSONNEL ON BOTH SHI'PS, AS WELL AS SPECIAL AND REPEATED EXAMINATIONS OF 7 MEN FROM EACH SHIP. DATES FOR: ONE OR MORE OF THESE EXAMINATIONS WERE 19, 21 AND 25 JULY. OUR CORPLETE EXAMINATIONS WERE DONE ON 26 JULY ON 12 PERSONS FROM EACH SHIP. INCLUDING THE 7 PERSONS DONE REPEATEDLY BY DR HASZLER AND 9 OTHERS CHOSEN FOR THE LOWEST WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNTS REPORTED BY THE JAPANESE PHYSICIANS AND/OR DOCTOR HASZLER. COMPLETE MEDICAL HISTORIES, WITHING THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE:DIFFICULTIESs, WERE TAKEN ' © INTERPRETERS AGREABLE BUT EFFECTIVENESS:NOT 100 PERCENT), AND COMPLETE PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS PAREN EXCLUDING GENITALIA AND RECTUM € DONE, INCLUDING PERSONEL NONITIRING FOR RADIATION CONTAMINATH ON AND ANY EVIDENCE OF BETA). BLOOD EXAMINATIONS INCLUDED RED AND WHITE CELL COUNTS, SMEARS FOR WHITE CELL DIFFERENTIAL EXAMINATION BEING FORWARDED TO ARMED FORCES INSTITUE OF PATHOLOGY ¢ COLONEL FRANK TOWNSEND, DEP DIRECTOR), WASHINGTON DC. SAMPLE HEMOGLOBIN DONE. VENOMS BLOOD ON 7 PEOPLE AND 24 HOUR URINES ON 7 BEING FORWARDED TO LT COL JAMES HARTGERING, WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, FOR POSSIBLE EVIDENCE OF RADIOACTIVITY. PARA ® OUR ON THE SPOT BLOOD EXAMINATIONS SHOW AS FOLLOWS: THE 2 INDIVIDUALS REFERRED TO IN PARA 4 HAD, RESPECTIVELY, HEMOGLOBIN, RED’ BLOOD COUNT AND WHITE BLOOD COUNT OF 108 PERCENT, 5-2 MILLION AND 4700 AND 76 PERCENT, 3.1% MILLION AND 5700. PREVIOUS WHITE BLOOD COUNT DIFFERENTIAL SHOWED, RESPECTIVELY, POLYMORPHS, 58 PERCENT AND LYMPHOCYTES, 358 PERCENT MOBOCYTES, 4 PERCENT3 POLYMORPHS, 63 PERCENT, LYMPHOCYTES, 2S PERCENT : . Bye SPBah RESPECTIVE SHIPS PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND FROM THE PERSONNEL THEMSELVES CONFIRMED BY THE AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL OFFICE, NEW GUINEA ISLAND, CHARLES HASZLER, MD) REVEALED THAT NO PERSONNEL, ON EITHER SHIP PRESENTED ANY COMPLAINTS OF ILLNESS TO THE SHIPS DOGTORS» HOWEVER, UPON ARRIVAL AT RABAUL, 2 PEOPLE WERE EXAMINED BY DR HASZLER AT THE REQUEST OF THE TAKUYO MARUS PHYSICIANe THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE NOT CONSIDERED TO HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS OF RADIATIONgh awe UNITED STATES ORIGIN.) PARA 4+ THE MEDICAL HISTORY AS OBTAINED. FROM THE