a | _. - - _ . ’4/ PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED . DRAFT: MEMO - TO: MORSE SALISBURY A VU Wy L,/23/5k ae AO’ 7 Lie SUBJECT: CHRONOLOGY OFAMERICAN OFFERS OF }MEDICALESSISTANCE IN RE JAPANESE FISHERMEN. 1. Following newspaper reports of injury to Japanese fishermen, Dr, Bugher telephoned Dr. John Morton, Director, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, in Japan, requesting that he proceed to Tokyo, determine such facts as he could, and offer facilities and services of the staff of the ABCC, (Dr. Bugher talked to Morton by long distance phone on March 16 and March 19), NON-CCRP CLASSIFICATION CANCELLED We -fe@< ?S.> SVEG OF RITY BY AUTHO iatabeaaain 2=12-EL BY 2. AOde deze DATE 3 (8 J) On March 17 Morton cabled Bugher, «eral ‘tTsuguki contacted. invited our assistance, STOP, “ ABCC medical team will arrive Tokyo on Thursday March WAS, Embassy informed of these plans, Morton with réturn to Tokyo from Hiroshima with this team." DOE ARCHIVES Next information was sent March 21, giving average white co A cable from Morton in Tokyo, on Tokyo patients and patients at Yaizu, Average white count on 4S. patients gf Tokyo 6133,-7000 tf Sess SreunEs | US DOE ARCGIVES Q54 tra | Cclectian 1 Pox . Amara ~eek < -t te BM Counts on March 17 Tokyo ryan 2a Sa | ~ mera 7-G, 11S, Rod Sy prow r\ ortor tahing Qap s Than, let ee f @ pier Mn. BQ b-1%- 3, Rey 3 X )RG F7a2 As of March 1h. - RESEARCH & pL” PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED