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"
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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
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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).
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Table.6
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Adult Mosity
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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.