In a photograph taken in October 1945, Dr. Chuta Tamagawa conducts autopsies of A-bomb victims in a makeshift hut next to Hiroshima Teishin Hospital.
Yoshio Sugihara, a medical student at the time, witnessed the post-mortems carried out by Tamagawa, who was then a professor at Hiroshima Prefectural Medical School (now Hiroshima University School of Medicine). He described the situation in his memoir, "Wrath of a Pathologist."
The hospital was packed with the wounded. On Sept. 20, the body of a baby born prematurely at eight months was carried into the hut from the hospital ward. The next morning, the body of the 39-year-old mother was brought in.