Atomic Bomb
Dr. Bugher oriented the Committee on the recent activities
Casualty
Commission
of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.
He said that the
program was receiving more international attention than had been the case
in the past.
In Geneva, at the International Conference on Peacetime
Uses of Atomic Energy it was mentioned by various people, particularly
in regard to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission genetics studiese
The Chairman inquired, "what has happened to the plan for a medical
reactor program for Japan"?
Dr. Bugher replied that he had asked the
Rockefeller Foundation in Japan to make astudy of medical education
from the standpoint of possibilities of increasing support for the medical
school at Hiroshima.
The Foundation came to the conclusion that the
support to medical schools should be in Tokyo where the two outstanding
schools are located.
enthusiasm
Alse, the Japanese Science Council expressed
over building up the Hiroshima Medical College~~of building
a center for medical education and research and of amalgamating various
facilities of the school with facilities of tne ABCC.
Dr. Bugher explained further that another factor in this rather complicated
picture is the interest by the Episcopal Church in possibly making a gift
of a reactor to Saint Lukes Hospital in Japan.
Dr. Failla propounded the
questions of "How does the medicai profession feel about this situation
in Japan?
Are they in favor of having the reactor at Hiroshima or Tokyo?"
A report on the subject matter will be made at a later date.
Radiological Thesis = Dr. Hardin Jones, of the Donner Laboratory, University
of California presented a thesis on the radiation probiem as it may affect
populations.
He maintains that the aging process in humans may be
accelerated generally in proportion to the disease incidence experienced
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