former Director,
and the present Director Dr.
Associate Director,
and to doctors Kato,
LeRov Allen,
Steer,
Belsky,
Dr.
Maki,
and Wada.
Also in Hiroshima the Committee wishes to thank Dr. Fumio
Shigeto,
“izuno,
Director of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hospital, Dr.
Yutaka
Countermeasure Section Chief at the Hiroshima Survivors Wel-
fare Center, Mr.
Hiroshi Suzuki, Vice Director of the Hiroshima
A-bomh Aid Home, Mr. Kazuharu Hamasaki, Director Of the Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Museum,
and Dr.
Tomin Harada,
Director of the Harada
Hospital.
Qur special thanks is also herehy recorded for Dr.
Haruo Ezaki,
now Professor in the Second Surgery Department of the Hiroshima
University School of Medicine, for nis participation as a consultant
to the Committee.
supervisor, Dr.
We are especially grateful to Dr.
Naomasa Okamoto,
Fzaki's former
Director of the Research Institute
for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Iiroshima for allowing Dr, Ezaki
to take leave from the Institute to work with the Committec,
Nagasaki.
The Committee would like to extend its qratitude to the tionorable Yoshitake Murotani,
Mavor of Nagasaki Citv and to his Deputy
Mayor Soichi Urabe for his kindness to the Committee, and for the
assistance in arranging the Committee's schedule.
qrateful to Dr.
We are also
Sadahisa Kawamoto of the Nepartment of Medicine,
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Dr. Yoshimasa Matsuzaka, Assista
nt
Director of the Nagasaki Survivors Welfare Center,
of the Nagasaki A-bomb Hospital,
the Old Age A-borb Survivors liome ,
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