Sank Fo ee ‘Group. : Age: Rongelap (175 rads) we. Ailingnae (69 rads) Uurik (14 rads) Unexposed** a -| ee. Table 5 eo a le Mortality, 1954-1969, by Age's of1985" - ee ge ~<10 11-20 21-30 31-40 4850 «51-60 61-70. 71-80 380 & Total O/19" 0/6 1736 O/Fie: 1/13 0/1 0/20 1/28 0/10 0/1 3/15 0/30 0/5 1/5 1/20 2/18 2/F "3/5 fiO71 5/18 9/13 ‘ bce. 3/17 1/1 ~ - "iy 3/3° 7 — 8/11 3/ —— TT _AT= 1/1 1/68 3/18 30/157 16/189 *Mortality/number in group. “ee **This group was not examined until$957. and;includes occagional new subjects examined thiectigh:'}966TSubject 1512). ape = —> . x ao _ = zz. . ee meget Ss Table.6 = Adult Mosity = = : aim Subject Age No. & sex Probable cause Year Heart disease Heart disease, diabetes Acutevaricella Ovarian cancer Cancerof cervix** Heart disease Accident Accident Poliomyelitis, bulbar “Old age” (?) Pneumonia, heart disease 24 38 31* 62 30 46 26 56 52° 57 43" 46M 78M 35M 60 F 60 F 84M 21M 75 F 55 F 107 F 77¥F 1966 29* 77™M_— Asthma,heart failure 71F Cancer of uterus** 28* 79F 1966 55 88M 1968 39* 58 F 1966 13 . Unexposed 1956 1937 1958 1959 1962 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1964 1965 aan np Exposed Year = we Heart disease Heart disease Influenza—pneumonia * Ailingnae group. **Not confirmed by autopsy or biopsy. to the United States for extensive thyroid studies at Brookhaven National Laboratory and later surgery in Boston. In 1969 five further cases were brought over for thyroid studies and surgery in Cleveland. The deaths during the past 3 years are included in Tables 5 and 6. Three exposed people died. The 58-year-old woman(#59) referred to above, who died of pneumonia complicating influenza, had had a partial thyroidectomy for benign thyroid adenoma theprevious year. Another death, that of a 71-year-old woman ( #13), was thought to be due to cancerof the uterus, and an 88-year-old man ( #55) died of cardiovascular disease with heart failure. Among the unexposed population three older men died, one with diabetes ( #853), Subject Age No. & sex 1958 1959 1960 1960 1960 1962 1962 1963 1964 1964 1964 857 854 933 927 861 953 848 886 893 862° 894 >_ 65 M_ 53 F 36M 65M 68 F 48M 41 F 54M_ 61F STM 68F 1967 ° 967 24M «Accident 1966 .- 964 1967 936- 1968 860 1967 Probable cause Cerebral thrombosis [nfection in urinary tract, diabetes Pneumonia,secondary to influenza Pneumonia, secondary to influenza Diabetes, cancerof cervix (?) Status asthmaticus Neurosyphilis (?) Asthma(?) Diabetes “Heart disease Pneumonia .. 90M. Probably cardiovascular (?) 76F 853 62M 78 M x. Infeetion complicating diabetes Diabetes Congestive heart failure _— oy ia ‘ailure (#860) andiane fréin“an- (#2964). An olden woman ( #936) died.c€inplications ofdiabetes~“A: 24-year-old raale(90) d@iesiin-an auto accident. The boy mentionedabove diet of complications of influenzaDaring¥ past.15 years; 16 deaths have occurtéd -among"the-exposed Rongelap people. This réfresents-13:0deaths per 1000.pera anhiffficamipatte with 83 per 4000 for: shall Islands as a whole (1960). Table 7 lists the births and miscarriages during the last 3 years for both populations. The 33 births during the 3-year period in the exposed group, compared with 30 in the unexposed group, are in line with the birth rate in previous years and show no impairmentoffertility in the exposed women.