Figure 5. United Nations visiting group meeting with Rongelap residents in village church, 1959. PROCEDURES Rongelap Village. Location of Examinations LST Tank Deck. examinations (Figure 6). Hematological and other laboratory procedures and ophthalmological examinations were carried out in the dispensary (Figure 7). Medical histories were taken and physical examinations were made in the schoolhouse. The council house provided areas for an administrative center, for collection of urine samples, and for laboratory use by the University of Washington group. Whole-body gamma spectros- copy was carried out with the 21-ton steel room placed in the after part of the tank deck, with the alr conditioned electronics roomand the shower facility close by. The people to be examinedentered the ship via the forward ramp directly onto the tank deck, proceeded to the shower facility where they disrobed, took a complete soap and water shower, and donned disposable paper coveralls and slippers, and then proceeded to the 21-ton steel room, where a 10-min gamma spectroscopy count was obtained. Phonograph music waspiped History and Physica! Examinations *, into the steel room during the procedure. The « people, except very young children, showed no 4° evidence of fear or claustrophobia and appeared to enjoy the procedure. Further description of the gamma spectrographic methods will be presented later. The diagnostic x-ray machine was also set up in the tank deck. Asin 1958, the dispensary, schoolhouse, and council house were used for the Histories were taken by a Marshallese practitioner with particular emphasis on the interval history during the past year. A special survey was conducted bythe pediatrician to ascertain more accurately the birth dates of the Rongelapese, particularly the children, Complete physical examinations were carried out including examinations of the children for growth and development (anthropometric measurements, and x-ray examinations of the left wrist