NO RECOVERY FROM ATOMIC INJURIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 201, 25 August 1945, Page 5

NO RECOVERY FROM ATOMIC INJURIES

JAPANESE REPORT

Examination Of Wounds

Of Victims

N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 10 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. Tokyo radio says that a fortnight after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, radio activity effects had increased the deaths from the original 30,000 to 60,000 The majority of the injured persons received ultra-violet ray burns. Those within a radius of one and a quarter miles of the explosion were burnt two or three times. Others two miles distant had their skin turned a bright red and blisters formed after two hours, resulting in dropsy. Although abundant medical supplies were brought to the area, deaths continued to mount, reconstruction workers suffering various sicknesses. Examination of ten servicemen who were burnt while recuperating a week after the bombing revealed that they possessed only 3150 white corpuscles. Twentythree others who escaped burns and were apparently healthy, possessed 3800, compared with between 7000 and 8000 for the normal persons. Burnt servicemen had 3,065,000 red corpuscles and others 3,094,000 instead of the normal 4,500,000 to 5,000,000. "This shows that no person can completely recover from injuries received by the atomic bomb," the radio stated.