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Acknowledgements
We express our gratitude to the Shizuoka
prefectural and the Yaizu municipal authorities
' We are deeply grateful to many agencies and
individuals for valuable assistance to the medical
survesxs since 1954,
Many staffs of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, particularly Dr. K. Tsukamoto,
and
Director, Dr S. Tanaka, Dr. S. Miwa, Dr. M. Seki,
also to Miss .A. Yamane. Mrs. T. Kamagata, Mr.
Dr. T. Yoneyama. Dr. E. Tazaki, Dr. Y. Mochizuki, Dr. S. Oryu, Dr. N. Saeki, Mr. M. Uchiyama, Mr. T. Tinuma, were most helpful in
supporting the 1964 survey.
Miura and
Dr. M. Shimada, Dr. S. Ishii, Dr. I. Suzaki and
other staffs of Yaizu City Hospital were also
helpful in the medical survey.
to
the
Fishermen’s Cooperative Union of
Yaizu for their arrangement for smooth operation
of the survey.
We are thankful to Dr. T. Iseki and Mrs. M.
Sato for their excellent culture techniques, and
Mrs. Y. Nakajima for laboratory
studies.
We wish to thank Dr. C. L. Dunham, U. S.
AEC and Dr. R. A. Conard, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, for arranging the visit of Dr. Kumatort to Marshall Islands.