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54, a clerk under Shimizu in the Administrative Office of KIU medical college, working in the personnel section and handling assignments as given by Shimizu, including the assignment of personnel to various departments. Uriyu does not keep a register of bodies to be cremated. No bodies are to be cremated in the University Crematory without authorization from Uriyu. He keeps a record of each body. Uriyu held his present position in April and June of 1945. Bodies of Prisoners dying in local prisons, of vagrants, poor people and sometimes the bodies of those who had willed their bodies to the University for dissection were sent to them directly to the anatomy section, and the papers on the bodies were sent to Uriyu by the police, giving the name, age, address, type of sickness, treatment used, date of death and nearest relative. Uriyu made copies of these papers, sent them to Nomiyama in the anatomy section, who kept the record of these bodies in the anatomy section. Takata, an anatomy section servant, injected fluid into bodies for preservation; Takata and Nomiyama always knew which body and which records went together. At one time tags were made of wood and had information on them to identify the bodies; 2 or more such tags were placed on each body and stayed there. Nomiyama kept a record of all bodies, and he made an entry in his book as soon as papers on a body were received. Uriyu thinks he checked with Takata on this also. As soon as Takata injected the body with fluid and put on the tags he put the body in a vat of preservative. When the students were done with the body and it was ready for cremation Uriyu was notified. Many times when the papers first came to Uriyu on a body, for dissection he stamped "to be cremated" on the papers sent to Nomiyama. If they were not so stamped the papers were brought to Uriyu for stamping when the dissectors were through with the body. The wooden tags were used to identify the bodies, so the papers were probably not taken out there. The bodies were kept in vats until ready for use by the University students, then brought to the dissection room, put back in the vats each day so they would not rot. After the body was burned Igarashi put the ashes in a little box and brought it with the tag to Nomiyama, who made an entry in his book and gave Igarashi the same papers which Uriyu had sent to him when the body was first brought to the University. Igarashi then brought those up to Uriyu. Sometimes relatives came to pick, at which time just the papers were brought to Uriyu. The relatives were notified in any event and the ashes were kept in Uriyu's office for claiming for one year, after which they were transferred to a place near the crematory and kept there for 3 years, then placed on a bone pile near the crematory. Once a year in October priests were hired to come out and a funeral service was held with the medical staff present. Takata was a servant, injected the bodies with fluid, should know about the American Prisoners. |