old in 1945 are now coming to the age when
persons would normally
start developing cancer and they are beginning to find more cases
in the exposed.
As to leukemia, it was stated that in Nagasaki the
threshold dose appeared to be from 50 to 100 rads,while for Hiroshima
there appeared to be no threshold.
MEDICAL WELFARE CLINIC
At 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning, the Committee traveled to the
Hiroshima Medical Welfare Center and met with Dr. Yutaka Mizuno, Chief
of the Countermeasure Section.
three areas of work
explained that there
and that this
are
are
Dr. Mizuno explained that the Center's
health control, research, and treatment.
He
about 95,000 survivors in the Hiroshima area
Centercares for about 80% of them.
Most of their work
is concerned with health control, and they cooperate with the
Hiroshima University Research Institute for the research portion, and
with the A-bomb hospital for treatment.
main work, he said that this
is
As to health control, their
carried out in two ways:
1.
a gene-
ral examination in which health teams are organized to canvass areas
by school district and 2.
"close" or detailed examinations of persons
who, the general examination indicates, should undergo a more thorough
clintcal checkup.
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
An adjunct of Hiroshima University, this Institute is headed by
Dr. Shunzo Okajima.
He explained that the Institute's work is
54
lO14bo0