Figure 3. Trust Territory ship bringing team and medical equipmentat anchoroff Utirik Island.
Table 2
Location of Rongelap People, 1964
Exposed
Adults
Majuro
3
Kwajalein
Rongelap
9
34
Otheratolls
Eniaetok
Total
Unexposed
Children
Children of exposed parents
1
3
Adults
7
Children
7
Total
2
20
tt
29
37
72
40
49
103
204
2
1
0
13
11
27
48
28
43
132
108
359
0
of comparable size. Since the return of the people
to Rongelap, however, this group has about
doubled insize.
0
3
1
4
children of the comparison population). The majority of these people were examined on Rongelap
Atoll, but about 100 of them were examined at
Ebeye (Kwajalein Atoll) and a few at Majuro
Organization
1963 SURVEY (9 YEARS POST EXPOSURE}
Examinations were conducted on the following
Rongelap people: 70 exposed, 35 children ofexposed parents, and 196sunexposed (adults and
Atoll. In addition, Utirik Atoll was visited and 84
exposed people were examined there. The survey
team consisted of 10 physicians and technicians
from the United States and 6 from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (see Figure 2). A Trust
Territory ship, the M/V Rogue, was used to transport the medical team to the Islands (Figure 3).
The team lived ashore rather than on board ship