Abstract
Masuda city suffered heavy damage from flooding after the concentrated heavy rain on 23, July, 1983. In the two weeks following the disaster 302 patients, 207 males and 95 females, aging from first decade to eighth decade, visited our outpatients clinic. About half of them had injuries to their feet from glass fragments and nails suffered when they were seeking refugee or removing wood and mud. We were afraid of an outbreak of an outbreak of tetanus, but fortunately neither tetanus nor dysentery broke out. Power failure restricted the use of elevators and roentogenographic examinations. We ran short of gauze, drapes and gowns, Medical staff also suffered and some of them were absent from the hospital. It was rumored that tetanus and dysentery were going around. We keenly felt the necessity of a wireless-telephone between the hospital and administrative organs an temporary facilities which accommodated injured patients who had lost their houses. Typhoons and concentrated heavy rain will occur again in the future. We must seriously take up the problems of preparing for a possible flood.
