Table 3.
Mortality Among Rongelap and Utirik People (as of 1980).
(Possible causes comprise diseases noted in the medical records which might be
etiologically related to death. AE = Ailinginae exposed. NC = not confirmed
by biopsy or autopsy.)
Year
A.
1956
Subject No.
& sex
Age
Possible causes
Rongelap exposed
25 M
46
38
31
62
30
46
M
M - AE
F
F
M
1962
1963
1963
1964
56
52
57
43
F
F
F
F - AE
75
55
107
77
1966
1966
29 M - AE
55 M
77
88
Asthma, heart failure
Heart disease
1968
1971
1972
1972
59
50
54
60
58
51
19
74
Influenza-pneumonia
Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Heart disease
82
75
? Liver disease
ASHD
?
?
?
Drowning
? CVA
?
?
Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic
bronchitis
?
?
Asthmatic (?)
1962
1965
1966
1974
1977
1980
26 M
28 F - AE
13 F
F - AE
M - AE
M
F
68 M
58 F
82 M
78
35
60
60
84
Heart disease
1957
1958
1959
1962
1962
21
79
71
64
Heart disease, diabetes
Acute varicella
Ovarian cancer
Cancer of cervix - NC
Heart disease
Accident
Accident
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
"Old age" (2)
Pneumonia, heart disease
Heart disease
Cancer of uterus - NC
Cancer,
stomach
B. Utirik exposed
1956
1957
1957
1958
1959
1959
1959
1959
2118
2219
2222
2243
2122
2127
2170
2187
M
F
F
M
M
M
M
F
24
57
63
50
87
73
46
61
1960
1960
1960
2116 F
2131 F
2180 M
27
35
76
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