ATOMIC BOMB CASUALTY COMMISSION (ABCC) The largest operation and headquarters of this Commission are in Hiroshima. It was founded in 1947 with the primary purpose of studying athe A-bomb victims and their children. The ABCC is funded mainly (90%) through United States Atomic Energy Commission money channeled through the U.S. wational Academy of Sciences-National Research Council and partly through the Japaaese National Institute of Health. The Committee had met June 9 with the Director, Dr. George B. Darling on Saipan and he indicated that while he would not be in Japan during the Committe's visit, he would write to the staff to inform them in advance. The Committee thus met with Dr. LeRoy Allen, Jr., Deputy Director, and his staff. It was explained that originally the ABCC was established to study the acute effects of radiation exposure, but later the emphasis was changed to long-range studies of radiation effects. During its early years the ABCC treated, as well as examined, radiation victims; but today this agency's work is strictly based on examination and the gathering and evaluation of statistics. Patients who need medical treatment are referred to public medical centers and private clinics or physicians. It was explained that the Commission's main work was divided into three areas: (1) A life-span study which is designed to determine S2 1014b58°