dead is not too high. Near us there are two
barracks, in each of which forty Korean workers lived. On the day of
the explosion, they were laboring on the streets of Hiroshima. Four
returned alive to one barracks and sixteen to the other. 600 students
of the Protestant girls' school worked in a factory, from which only
thirty to forty returned. Most of the peasant families in the
neighborhood lost one or more of their members who had worked at
factories in the city. Our next door neighbor, Tamura, lost two
children and himself suffered a large wound since, as it happened, he
had been in the city on that day. The family of our reader suffered
two dead, father and son; thus a family of five members suffered at
least two losses, counting only the dead and severely wounded. There
died the Mayor, the President of the central Japan district, the
Commander of the city, a Korean prince who had been stationed in
Hiroshima in the capacity of an officer, and many other high ranking
officers. Of the professors of the University, thirty-two were killed
or severely injured. Especially hard hit were the soldiers. The
Pioneer Regiment was almost entirely wiped out. The barracks were near
the center of the explosion.

Thousands of wounded who died later could doubtless have been rescued
had they received proper treatment and care, but rescue work in a
catastrophe of this magnitude had not been envisioned; since the whole
city had been knocked out at a blow, everything which had been prepared
for emergency work was lost, and no preparation had been made for
rescue work in the outlying districts. Many of the wounded also died
because they had been weakened by under-nourishment and consequently
lacked in strength to recover. Those who had their normal strength and
who received good care slowly healed the burns which had been
occasioned by the bomb. There were also cases, however, whose
prognosis seemed good who died suddenly. There were also some who had
only small external wounds who died within a week or later, after an
inflammation of the pharynx and oral cavity had taken place. We
thought at first that this was the result of inhalation of the
substance of the bomb. Later, a commission established the thesis that
gamma rays had been given out at the time of the explosion, following
which the internal organs had been injured in a manner resembling that
consequent upon Roentgen irradiation. This produces a diminution in