ul wlan _— ee ee cae Ree Ml apenl a et ee ne ee ee ee et : ee Pa Re a ee ne oeeRSA! Sk SNOmepee a rere — : a. 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 B53 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 ee ee ee ee ee eee ee | Femate 60.9 63.1 —-— $9.1 . 641.4 6 2 2 8.6 4Oo 8.2 61? 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 ee ri) 124 415 76 T3 135 Lz: 8 T? lls 70 im re 125 78 iy Lo 19 rT 12 T3 116 1k 76 a 11a uy W 44 125 . 10 73 ra] - 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 Gm 5013250 1205 tun aeee ie Nae