The Effects of Atomic Bombs on the Health and Medical Services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Damage to buildings.
Damage to people.
The average medical care in Japan at that time was not very good.
Neither city had great care but Nagasaki did have a fine medical center.
Neither city had been heavily targeted before.
Some people thought something very bad was going to happen to Hiroshima since they had been spared the heavy bombing other cities had already felt.
Around 150,000 had evacuated Hiroshima, although around 10,000 had returned.
When the bomb was dropped many people were in their homes fixing breakfast, which meant they were using charcoal burners. These helped spread the fire after the bomb was dropped.
What happen to people at certain distances from Ground Zero.
The fires and what they did.
Nagasaki had some natural shielding via hills, etc, which helped limit the damage of the bomb a little.
Hiroshima: the smaller hospitals in the city center were of wooden construction, subject to being burned down easily.
The best hospital and what happened to it.
Hospitals were near Ground Zero.
Hospitals suffered worse destruction in Nagasaki.
Nagasaki had a lot of hospital beds near Ground Zero.
There was virtually no care for the wounded for a while after the bomb was dropped.
When the fatalities occurred.
What American occupation forces found in Nagasaki.
Conditions in Nagasaki three months later were still bad.
Almost all the nurses in Hiroshima had been killed.
Types of casualties.
Blast effects.
The number of deaths in the two cities.
Even before the bomb neither city was self-sustaining as far as food production went.
Physicians killed.
British estimate of bomb deaths.
Injuries in the two cities.
Flash burns and radiation effects had not been seen in normal incendiary bombing.
Deaths declined.
Estimated casualties.
The people in the two cities were not at all prepared for the bombs or their aftermath.
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