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Figure 5. United Nations visiting group meeting with Rongelap residents in village church, 1959.
PROCEDURES
Rongelap Village.
Location of Examinations
LST Tank Deck.
Asin 1958, the dispensarv,
schoolhouse, and council house were used for the
examinations (Figure 6). Hematological and other
Whole-body gamma spectros-
laboratory procedures and ophthalmological examinations were carried out in the dispensary
copy was carried out with the 21-ton steel room
placed in the after part of the tank deck, with the
air conditioned electronics roomand the shower
(Figure 7). Medical histories were taken and
physical examinations were made in the schoolhouse. The council house provided areas for an
facility close by. The people to be examined entered the ship via the forward ramp directly onto
administrative center, for collection of urine samples, and for laboratory use by the University of
Washington group.
the tank deck, proceeded to the shower facility
where they disrobed, took a complete soap and
water shower, and donned disposable paper coveralls and slippers, and then proceeded to the 21-ton
steel room, where a 10-min gamma spectroscopy
History and Physical Examinations
Histories were taken by a Marshallese practitloner with particular emphasis on the interval
into the steel room during the procedure. The «; history during the past year. A special survey was
people, except very young children, showed no 3,X conducted bythe pediatrician to ascertain © -re
evidence of fear or claustrophobia and appeared
accurately the birth dates of the Rongelapese, irto enjoy the procedure. Further description ofthe.
ticularly the children.
gamma spectrographic methods will be presented
Complete physical examinations were carried
later.
out including examinations of the children for
‘The diagnostic x-ray machine was also set up in
growth and development (anthropometric measthe tank deck.
urements, and x-ray examinationsof the left wrist
count was obtained. Phonograph music was piped
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