visual difficulties. I am not an ophthalmologist, and Drought no instruments to visualize the lenses of these's people's eyes. However, I learned that on one island about fifty per cent of the population is losing its vision. This does not come to me from one informant, but comes to me from three or four informants. One informant actually said that most of the adults were losing their Vision. Sometimes it was occurring in children. This again does not seem to be concomitant with the blast or follow shortly on it. One would expect the cataract changes sooner if it was due to looking directly at the blasts, and I would not expect it in individuals unborn at the time of the blasts. This appears’ to be perhaps one of the most disabling disabilities on the island of trik, and if not for the apparent willingness of the island to take care of its own there would be many people on this island suff ering) by reason of their a@imning Sight. In a colder, crueler society these people would not be able to survive. The frequency of eye probiems is complicated by also the notable frequency of dizbetes. Diabetes is an acequate cause of cataracts, and older diabetics may develope Cataratcts. However I asked very cerefully of those patients whom I saw with visual difficulties, -- I assume they had had cataracts some had been operated on anc had Cataract removal -- whether they were diabetic and I understand that while several were, just as many were not, and the diabetic explanation for all of the cata- racts and less of vision does not seem credible. this seems to be a radiation effect. Again AS another radiation effect there was a period of time when there were an unusual number of stillbirths or the birth of monstrosities. I have heard this called the year of the animal; although I understand this phrase to be offensive to those women who bore such offspring and I heard the particular phrase only from men and not commonly used. (It was the time when children were born with incompletely formed bodies, incempletely formed arms or less, or deformed heads. This occurred late, and not in the nine months after a near-by €xplosion when one would expect radiation effects. Moreover it occurred in islands distant enough so that direct radiation effects governed