ATOMIC BOMB BURNS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 228, 25 August 1945, Page 5

ATOMIC BOMB BURNS

EFFECT ON BLOOD BALANCE. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. The Tokio radio says that a ftrtnight after the atomic bomb was chopped on Hiroshima radio activity effects 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 and others two miles distant had their skin turned to a bright red, and blisters formed after two hours, resulting in dropsy. Although abundant medical -supplies were brought to the., area, the deaths continued to mount, while reconstruction workers suffered from various sicknesses.

Ten burnt servicemen were examined while recuperating a week after the bombing. They possessed only 3150 white corpuscles. Twenty-three others who escaped burns and were apparently healthy possessed 3800, compared with 7000 to 8000 for normal persons. The 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 caii completely recover from injuries received. from the atomic bomb," the radio said.