42,000 SHOTS IN THE ARM. Thanks in part to 

 the requirement that all personnel going to Bikini 

 be inoculated for typhus, typhoid, and tetanus, 

 and vaccinated for smallpox, the JTF-I Medical 

 Officer, Captain W. E. Walsh, succeeded in keep- 

 ing contagious diseases to an extremely low level. 



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However, there was one brief outbreak of dysen- 

 tery on the "New York," which was temporarily 

 quarantined off Kwajalein. Bikini Island was sprayed 

 every two weeks with DDT, and other islands of 

 hospital ships received few patients. 

 the Atoll were sprayed at least once. The three 



