5a - C, Death of a man in the comparison group: #953, male, 47 years of age, Died in July 1962 with acute asthmatic attack, asthma, He had a long history of No autopsy was o>dtained, During the past nine years since exposure, 9 deaths have occurred in the exposed group, This represents 12,2 deaths per 1000 compared with 8,3 per 1000 for the Marshall Islands as a whole in 1960, The greater mortality in the exposed Rongelap people may be related to the larger percentage of older people in the group, In regard to the death from cancer in the exposed woman, there is no justification for establishing causal relationship with radiation exposure, in view of the small number of people involved in this study, and the pausity of vital statistics on malignancies in the Marshall Islands, Births, miscarriages, stillbirths and neonatal deaths babies were born to exposed parents and 4 to unexposed parents, Three healthy The birth rate in the exposed group parallels fairly closely that in the unexposed group, One neonatal death (one month) due to infant diarrhea occurred in a twin born to exposed parents, A stillbirth (full term) with congenital abnormalities (ectro. melus) was born to exposed parents, Since this anomaly is not too uncomnon, it is not possible to incriminate radiation exposure in view of obvious statistical difficulty, Utirik. records, It was difficult to get accurate demographic data due to poorly kept It appeared, however, that during the past four years, since last examined, the people of Utirik have been generally free of major epidemics of disease, Several bouts of dysentery-type diarrhea occurred involving a dozen or so people on each occasion, but therapy with penicillin was effective, sickness from eating improperly prepared arrow-root starch was reported, five deaths had occurred in older paople from pneumonia, diarrhea, Six infant deaths were recorded, Some About skin infections, and There did not appear to have been any unusual illness or deaths and the birth rate appeared to be about the same as had been previously noted.