v -3- status in the fifected people and enhanced growth and development in children who had showed growth retardation. In 1972 a 19 year old Rongelap man who had been exposed at one ~year of age died of acute leukemia. He had extensive treatment at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. oe The ill- ness may have been induced by radiation. The annual medical examinations of the exposed Marshallese people continue with a team of highly qualified medical specialists. In addi- tion we now have a resident physician stationed in the Marshall Islands who makes at least quarterly visits for health care to the exposed people on the outer islands.