非公開の日本原爆被爆者の写真
ーアメリカ軍原爆調査団ー
88747-70151
スコットランド 273305
1946年12月10日
* 原爆による火傷の痕が残っている。
この17歳の少年は原爆の爆発で火傷を負った。XT NAGASAKI(長崎原子爆弾)。火傷は治り、ところどころに厚い瘢痕がある。足と手の瘢痕は部分的に色素沈着している。
撮影者：ヘンショー医師
ワシントン陸軍省広報局・ワシントンの陸軍省
写真：アメリカ陸軍信号隊14468
原爆 犠牲者
No. 488747-70151
Sc. 273305
10 DEC 46
* HEAVY SCARS APPEAR FROM BURNS DUE TO ATOMIC BOMB:"
THIS 17 YEAR OLD BOY SUSTAINED BURNS FROM THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION. XT NAGASAKI. HE WAS ON HTS ABDOMEN AT THE TIME. BURNS HAVE HEALED WITH THICK SCAR AT SOME PLACES. SCARS ON LEGS AND HANDS ARE PARTIALLY DEPIGMENTED.
PHOTOGRAPHER: DR. HENSHAW
RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON
Photograph by Signal Corps U.S. Army14468
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Boys exposed to the Nagasaki atomic bomb showed typical keloid scars similar to those of many burn victims.
A survey of the surgical sequelae of Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors seven years after the bombing was conducted by the Nagasaki University School of Medicine (Chouraisuke) in August 1946, September 1947, and January 1949, a total of three times. Initially, 67% of burn patients and 21% of trauma patients were found to have keloids in their scars. Moreover, even after surgical removal of the keloids, the majority of the keloids recurred.
The third survey in January 1949 confirmed that the keloids tended to heal spontaneously over time and that the number of recurrences after surgery had decreased markedly. In 1952, seven full years after the Nagasaki atomic bombing, the status of atomic bomb keloids, the course of burns and trauma received from the atomic bomb, and the course of surgical treatment of motor disability of the limbs were observed. There were only 290 patients in total, 123 males and 167 females, with sequelae. Burns were the most common type of injury at the time of injury, followed by vitreous wounds, and fractures and dislocations were rare. Dislocations of the wrist and knee joints, which are characteristic of atomic bombings, were observed.
The sequelae of the injuries were hypertrophic scars, but keloids were very rare, and most of the scars were ordinary simple simple scars. Contractures were mostly due to hypertrophic scarring, and the rest were due to fractures and dislocations. Nerve palsy is due to dissection of the nerve trunk caused by a piece of glass, and ulnar nerve palsy is the most common cause of palsy. The deformities of the ear shell were caused by chondritis due to suppuration of facial burns, resulting in deformity of the ear.
Most of the keloids from atomic-bomb burns were transformed into simple or thickened scars, and only 6.3% of burns and 0.9% of traumatic injuries had small keloids on a part of the limbus. Furthermore, 3 out of 12 cases (2 burns and 1 trauma) were congenital keloids that were caused by moxibustion scars or insect bite scars. All other keloids caused by the atomic bomb tended to heal completely spontaneously, with the exception of those with congenital conditions.
These are both lower limbs of Yoh Takeuchi, a 12-year-old girl whose daughter suffered from atomic bomb sickness caused by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. It was taken by Shunkichi Kikuchi on October 11, 1945 at the temporary special relief hospital established at the Oshiba National School in Hiroshima City. The daughter, Yoh Takeuchi, suffered a dislocated right hip, traumatic injuries to her right lateral knee and left leg, and ulcerated contusions.
Yoh Takeuchi was exposed to the bomb about 2 km southwest of the hypocenter. A refrigerator fell over and he became trapped under it, temporarily blacking out. As a result, his right hip joint was dislocated, and he suffered trauma to his right knee and the inside of his left leg. The wounds became infected and serious. She also received a shaved wound on the back of her head. Both mother and daughter entered Oshiba National School on September 18, the day the A-bomb disease manifested itself. About two months after the bombing, she developed A-bomb sickness. Hair loss, diarrhea, and fever followed. Her mother, Yone Takeuchi, died of A-bomb Disease on October 14, and her daughter, Yoh Takeuchi, died of A-bomb Disease in November 1945.
A temporary special relief hospital was set up at Oshiba National School, located 2.4 km north of the hypocenter in Oshiba 1-chome, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima City. The school building was heavily damaged and partially destroyed by fire. The school yard was overflowing with evacuees and was converted into a temporary relief hospital. On August 6, the day of the atomic bombing, the area was engulfed in fire, and those who were in charge of the rescue had to evacuate temporarily, leaving behind severely injured patients who could not be moved. However, as soon as the fire subsided, medical personnel turned back and reassumed their medical duties. 2 doctors, 3 dentists, 2 pharmacists, and 1 midwife were assigned to the hospital.
A model of scar pathology tissue of a human body part caused by exposure to the Nagasaki atomic bomb was made and exhibited at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. The model is a keloid pathology specimen of a burn wound from the right face to the neck. A model of keloidal tissue from a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor was made using a moulage technique.
This is a model of a keloid pathology specimen of the right upper arm to forearm and fingers, with the wrist joint of the right hand extended and the fingers flexed and contracted. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum exhibited in the A-bombed section a melted glass bottle, a charred lunch box, a photo of a charred boy, a photo and model of keloid damage, and the reality of a piece of clothing with a piece of glass stuck in its back from the blast.
The entire back of Kiyoshi Kikkawa, who still has keloidal burns from the heat of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, is photographed at Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital on April 30, 1947.Kiyoshi Kikkawa, a 33-year-old man, was exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima City on August 6, 1945, in front of his home about 1.5 km away from the hypocenter. He was hospitalized at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital in February 1946 and underwent about 16 surgeries, including skin grafts, before being discharged in April 1951 while receiving public assistance. A photograph taken on April 30, 1947 was featured in Life magazine and other publications as "ATOMIC BOMB VICTIM NO. 1 KIKKAWA" (Atomic Bomb No. 1).
The shoulder, arm, and back burned by the heat rays of the Hiroshima atomic bomb have raised flesh scars and keloids, and the surgical scars are fresh. Masaru Kuroishi (who died in 1990 at the age of 77), an X-ray technician at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, took the photographs as a medical record before and after treatment under the direction of doctors. He began taking photographs of the pathological conditions of A-bombed patients at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital (now the Hiroshima Red Cross and Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital) in October 1945, about two months after the atomic bombing by the U.S. military on August 6, 1945.
Masaru Kuroishi's photography was also under the direction of Deputy Director Fumio Shigeto and his colleagues. He and his colleague Seiji Saito, a pathology technician, recorded the effects of the atomic bombing on the human body. Some patients at the hospital were so injured that they could not even be identified by gender. Fumio Shigeto, the director of the hospital, told me to take various photographs, but my conscience got the better of me and I couldn't do it." Despite his conflicted feelings, he took nearly 50 photographs as a medical record.
In addition to the direct deaths of tens of thousands of people, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in a series of horrific consequences that have long characterized the entire region. Within a year of the atomic bombings, many people died from radiation and burns, and in the years that followed, many Japanese died of cancer and birth defects due to the radiation released by the very bombs.
Japanese Army soldiers exposed to the atomic bomb were interned at the camp for the injured of the Army Ship Training Department, located in Ujina, about 4 km south-southeast of the hypocenter of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and in early October 1945, they were admitted to Hiroshima Army Hospital No. 1. Due to acute symptoms of radiation damage caused by exposure to the atomic bomb, most of the hair on their heads had been lost from the front, sides, and back of the head. The main symptoms of the third to fifth week of acute damage to the human body were hair loss, hemorrhage including purpura, and lower hemorrhage, causing death with general weakness.
Ujina, Hiroshima, was a port area, more than 3 km from the hypocenter, and suffered relatively little damage from the atomic bomb. The people who had been exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima rushed to this area, which had survived the fire. One of the facilities that provided aid to the injured in Ujina was the Army Ship Training Depot. The Army Ship Training Department was an organization that provided education and training in ship operation to army units, and was stationed in the confiscated Daiwa Spinners Hiroshima factory. Since the number of troops receiving training was constantly changing, the barracks were not always full. There was also a stockpile of food, so there was no shortage of meals for about 1,000 people. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and although the building was slightly damaged by the explosion, it was not seriously damaged. About an hour later, the injured began to arrive. By 3:00 p.m. on August 6, several hundred A-bomb survivors had been admitted to the hospital. The Army Ship Training Department became what should be called a field camp. Many of the inmates were seriously ill with A-bomb disease, and from August 10 to mid-September, approximately 3,000 people died.
The Army Ship Training Center, which had been a field camp, was reorganized by order of the Ship Command and became the Army Ship Training Center Temporary Field Hospital on August 12, and with the defeat of Japan on August 15, the military wartime system was liberated. On August 25, the nameplate of Hiroshima First Army Hospital Ujina Branch was hung. During this period, the Army Ministry Investigation Team entered the area on August 8, and the 2nd Investigation Team on August 14. Using the Ship Training Department as a base, they were engaged in the investigation of the atomic bombing.
The boy was admitted to a hospital in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Even five months after the explosion on August 9, 1945, he suff...
