350 DASA 2019-2 gone. There were some outlying sanataria where the surviving doctors collected. In Nagasaki, which had part of the town left on the south and where the prefectural governor presided, he still had the majority of the staff yet in hand because he hin-.self was not injured in any way. He organized the feeding of refugees and the injured. In fact, this became a complication because the place of a patient who died was apt to be taken by somebody who just walked in and laid down on the mat hopefully to get a handful or a couple of balls of rice and some tea, which was issued by the Prefectural Govern- ment. So this was away of getting some food. They had to be given the bum's rush to make place for those that were injured. With the lack of people in the area there was no health problem as such outside of the casualties. But the potential was there certainly. The water was off for quite a few days because the leaks were just everywhere and they had to shut off between the intact and the damaged areas in order to get water pressure back in the center of Nagasaki. There was another serious problem in Nagasaki. The honeybucket system continued to work from the south part of the town. But the barges began to overflow because the men who managed these barges had been killed or died or fled. Anyway, there were none available. So the manure, the human manure, just piled up there and this madea very bad stench and a very bad fly problern. FREMONT-SMITH: On the barges? WARREN: Onthe barges. They would just bring up the honeybucket, and the barges were full so they would just dump it all into the estuary, and it was just on the surface everywhere. So this problem created an emergency which the Prefectural Governor somehow got the manpower to deal with. He had the barges towed out and the disperal of the contents was then carried out in the usual channels because outside of the city area the farmers were ready and organized to receive the honeybucket materials. But I would say pretty nearly a month went by before that really got taken care of properly. The life of the rest of the town went on pretty well, [ think. The restaurants worked and they had no trouble getting food. Of course, you woulc naturally expect we would get preferential treatment. DOBSON: But supposing the Americans had not been there and there was no outside help, what would have beer the situation?