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「人道研究ジャーナル」Vol.2

The Journal of Humanitarian Studies Vol. 2, 20132. Deaths in the Line of Duty under the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing: Red Cross Nurses and NursingStudentsThe atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima just when people were starting their work in the morning. Relief partynurses had just arrived at the hospital from their dormitory to begin their daily tasks. However, the hot summermorning would soon be the setting of a great tragedy. The main building of the Hiroshima First Army Hospital,which was located 450m (492yds) distance from the hypocentre, was completely destroyed in an instant, andalmost all medical workers and military patients were killed. The Hiroshima Second Army Hospital alongside ofthe River Ota, which was situated 1km (0.62mi.) from ground zero, was also utterly demolished; in consequence,a large number of people died. Furthermore, the Mitaki Branch Hospital of the Hiroshima Second Army Hospital,which was located 2km (1.24mi.) away from the hypocentre, was collapsed but a number of victims were less thanother hospitals.Many nurses of the relief parties, who were stationed at the Hiroshima First and Second Army Hospital, did notescape the effects of the bomb. Firstly, the Hiroshima Chapter lost 18 nurses in total, including 15 nurses of ReliefParty No. 71 and three nurses of Party No. 112. One nurse of Party No. 489, who was deployed to Burma but wassent back to Japan due to illness and was hospitalised at the Army Hospital, was also killed.Secondly, 16 nurses of Ehime Chapter Party No. 717 died in the line of duty. Seven nurses were killed immediatelyin the blast and nine nurses lost their lives due to severe injuries. Furthermore, five other nurses were severelyinjured.‘A Hundred Years’History of the Japanese Red Cross Society Ehime Chapter’notes that the fate of EhimeChapter Relief Party No. 717 was the most tragic amongst parties of the Ehime Chapter attached to Hiroshima. (10)Thirdly, Yamaguchi Chapter Relief Party No. 133 lost 10 members and Party No. 862 of the chapter lost one nurse.In addition, Tokushima Chapter Party No. 716 lost a staff member.At the site in an embankment of the River Ota in Motomachi, where the Hiroshima Second Army Hospital usedto be, the Hiroshima Army Hospital Atomic Bombing Memorial Monument was established. It stands with namesof victims of medical staff at the hospital. The majority of the names were those of Red Cross nurses. It tells us ofthe misery of the war and the atomic bombing today.As previously mentioned, although the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital left an outer wall the strong nuclear blastdestroyed the inside of the hospital totally. Consequently, 29 workers were killed in total, including five doctors,three nurses, three pharmacists, and 18 other staff, including clerks, telephonists, drivers, and assistants to apathological examination, administrators, caretakers, boiler attendants, engineers, stockers, cooks, laundry ladiesand cleaning ladies.Furthermore, 22 relief nursing students acting as interns at the hospital or stayed at the dormitory lost their lives.They stayed at a nurse dormitory. At that time, 408 nursing students were studying. Apart from this, 4 senior and13 junior nursing students of a class A (Kou) nurse and 5 senior nursing students for a class B (Otsu) nurse werekilled. Their dreams of becoming a Red Cross nurse had suddenly become a nightmare.On the whole, 51 Red Cross Hospital workers died in total and more than 250 staff and nursing students wereseverely injured. One of the nursing students, who had been seriously injured in the atomic bomb committedsuicide twelve years later due to total despair with her life.人道研究ジャーナルVol. 2, 201369