Some of the common diseases treated are breast cancer, cataracts, and leukemia.

Come 80 patients die annually, or about 50 per-

cent of the hospital's capacity.
Dr.

Shigeto told the Committee that there is a difference between

A-vomb and regular patients.

They feel different in that they are

more uneasy and uncertain about their futures.

‘This uneasiness, he

explained, is doubled that of those who may think that a regular disease
may have been caused by the A-bomb.
ing, according to the doctor.

for them.

all survivors there have this feel-

Many who survived have no one to care

"It is a very uneasy feeling", ne said.

"If patients re-

cover", he related, "they can go home, but may have to come back again.”
‘ihe doctor then took the Committee members on a tour of the hospital
where they saw many survivors, some of them still showed the scars from

NAGASAKI TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AFTER
The Committee arrived by train in Nagasaki on the evening of June 26,

1972, and that evening held a brief meeting with city officials to plan
a schedule.

The next morning the members met with the Honorable Soichi

Urabe, Deputy Mayor of the city of Nagasaki.

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conference was held.

After that, a brief press

uhe Committee then visited facilities similar to

the ones visited in Hiroshima; for the sake of brevity, only that information which differs from what has already been related will be included.

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the burns they suffered nearly thirty years ago.

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