Table 9

Pregnancy Terminations (Abortions, Miscarriages, and Neonatal Deaths)

Summarized by Five-Year Intervals, 1951-1973

Terminations/total pregnancies
1954-1958

Exposed females

+ Exposed males
+ Unexposed males

Unexposed females
+ Exposed males

+ Unexposed males

1939-1963

No.

%

10/30

_

No.

1964-1968

1969-1973

%

No.

%

No.

%

4/19
6/11

33.3

21.1
54.5

5/30

3/10
2/20

30.0
10.0

16.6

10/46

21.7

10/47

21.3

6/43
1/4

14.0
25.0

7/47
0/6

14.9
0

9/53
t/4

17.0
25.0

18/87
1/15

20.7
6.7

5/39

12.8

7/41

2/13
8/31

17.1

8/48

13.3
25.8

0/5
10/42

16.3

0
23.8

17/72

23.6

Table 10
Adult Mortality, Rongelap

Exposed (Av. age at death: 64-5)
Year
1956

Subject
No.
25

Age

& sex

Probable cause

46M

Heart disease

62

60F

Ovarian cancer

1962

46

84M — Heart disease

1963
1963

52
57

1965
1966
1966
1966

28°
29*
55
13

1971

50*

1957
1958

38
31°

1962

30

1959

1962
1962

1964

1968

1972
1972

1974

26
56

43°

59°
54
60
68

78M
35 Ms
60 F

Heart disease, diabetes
Acute varicella

Unexposed (Av. age at death: 652.5)
Subject

Age

1958

857

65M

1960

927

Year

1959
1960

Cancer of cervix**

1960

Accident
Accident

1962
1963

No.

& sex

854 S5F
933
56M
65 M

Probable cause
Cerebral thrombosis

Infection in urinarytract, diabetes
Pneumonia, secondary to influenza

Pneumonia, secondary to influenza

861

68 F

Diabetes, cancer of cervix (?)

848
886

41F
54M

Neurosyphilis (?)
Asthma(?)

68F

Pneumonia

1962

953

Poliomyelitis, bulbar
“Old age” (?)

1964
1964

893
862

TOF
77M
88M
71F

Heart disease
Asthma,heart failure
Heart disease
Cancerof uterus**

1966
1967
1967
1967

964
967
936
853

90M
24M
76F
62M

51M

Acute asphyxiation,

1969

852

65F

1970
1970

916
§=—-1515

46F
30M

Asthma,diabetes

1970

875

53M

? (epileptic)

947

64M

Hypertensive heart disease

961
856

79M
74M

21M
75F

55 F
107 F

77F

58 F

19M
74F

64M

Pneumonia, heart disease

Influenza-pneumonia
cause unknown

Acute myelogenous leukemia
Heart disease

Cancer, stomach

1964

1968

1970

1970

1971

1972

1972 1972

1972
1973

1973
1973
1974
1974
*Ailingnae group.

**Not confirmed by autopsy or biopsy.

894

860
884
918

899
957
858

898
1506
948
908

48M

61F
91M

78M

76M

72M

76M

64F
78F

75 F
65M
66M
84 F

‘

Status asthmaticus
Diabetes
Heart disease

Probably cardiovascular(?)
Accident
Infection complicating diabetes
Diabetes

Congestive heart failure

Hypertension, diabetes

Heart disease, diabetes

.

Heart disease (?)

Heart disease (?)
Hemiplegia, pneumonia

Asthma, heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
Heart disease, diabetes

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