Ninoshima Overflowing with Injured

Injured victims from Ujina began arriving on Ninoshima at about 10 a.m. on August 6. The quarantine station, having already received orders from Army Marine Headquarters to set up an emergency field hospital, had maximized its receiving capacity. However, the number of injured and their condition vastly exceeded expectations. The military and affiliated personnel at the quarantine station and the island residents all helped to transport, receive and care for the injured. Near noon, about 100 workers from the 10th Training Unit of the Marine Training Division on Etajima Island arrived. In the evening, another 100 workers arrived from the Field Shipping Depot in Ujina and Kanawajima Island. Still, the injured were so numerous that by evening 1,000 patients had to be sent on from Ninoshima to other relief stations.

16 The quarantine station filled with injured Drawing / Shigeo Nishimura Source / HIROSHIMA-A Tragedy Never to Be Repeated (Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers) August 6, 1945, afternoon, Ninoshima Quarantine Station The holding barracks and the attached hospital were prepared as hospital rooms, but they were soon crammed with the injured. The overflow was moved to the Horse Quarantine Station.

17 Dead and injured transported to Ninoshima by boat Drawing and text / Iwao Fukui August 6, 1945, Ninoshima Quarantine Station "From Ujina, the injured were carried to Ninoshima rapidly in motorboats and barges. Some boats arrived pulling corpses through the water with ropes tied to the stern. Whenever I recall those perfectly white faces washed by the sea water, I choke up over the cruelty of that tragedy." Excerpt from explanation on back of drawing	18 Ninoshima Temple served as an emergency relief station Courtesy / Yoshiyuki Hamamoto Aza Yajita, Ninoshima-cho In the 1941 Hiroshima City Air Defense Plan, the Ninoshima Temple was designated a district emergency relief station with a capacity of 300 patients. After the atomic bombing, crowds of injured victims were taken in, soon overflowing the temple. The local women's association and other residents offered what relief they could, but the victims' injuries were so serious that adequate treatment could not be provided at the temple. Many were taken on to the quarantine station.

19 Holding barracks that took in the injured Photo / Shunkichi Kikuchi Courtesy / Tokuko Kikuchi October 17, 1945, Ninoshima Quarantine Station The holding barracks and the attached hospital were prepared as hospital rooms, but they were soon crammed with the injured. The overflow was moved to the Horse Quarantine Station.

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