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HEALTH SURVEYIN PACIFIC
Table 3.
Average height by age group and sex
Saipan district
Palau district
Marshell Islands
distrlet
Ate group (years)
Male
Female
Male
Female
3.4
HT
$24
3.3
He
15 to 19
63 4
61.)
61.6
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1
30 to 24
65.8
61.2
35 to H
iS to &
63.6
64.8
60. §
00.4
65.4
65 and over
ase
Male
10 to 14
25 to H
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| Femate
60.9
63.1
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.
641.4
6 2
2
8.6
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8.2
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tor
622
|
OCU:
xv.9
98
83.8
9.6
*
6
60.0
59.8
38.7
=
-
one
e
No generalizations may be made for the trust territory as a whole
with respect to variations in median blood-pressure readings. Variations followed no consistent pattern in the districts. As normally
expected, median blood-pressure readings increased with age. This
increase was most rapid in the Saipan district. ‘The median systolic
and diastolic readings were generally higher for males than for
females, with the smallest difference between sexes occurring in the
Morshall Islands (table 4).
Table 4.
Median systolic and diastolic blood pressure by are groitp and sex
15 to 24 age group
(years)
Dstrict and sex
Galpan
Male
Female
.
Palsu
Male
Female
.
Marssball Islands
Male
Female
35 to 4 1f8 gToup
(years;
45 and over ave group
years}
Systolic
Disstolic
Systolic
Disstotic
Systolic
Diastolle
119
113
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ri)
124
415
76
T3
135
Lz:
8
T?
lls
70
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re
125
78
iy
Lo
19
rT
12
T3
116
1k
76
a
11a uy
W
44
125
. 10
73
ra]
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DISEASE PREVALENCE
American occupation forces found the health of the islanders gener-
ally poor and their needs for medical and surgical care extremely
pressing.
The conditions under which the native population had
been forced to live during World War II, wartime diets of low
calorie content, and the inadequacy of medical treatment received
prior to and during the war had all left their mark.
OCTOBER 1959
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5013250
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