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.
Subject No.
& sex
Age
Possible causes
Rongelap exposed
1956
1957
1958
1959
1962
1962
1962
1962
1963
1963
1964
1965
1966
1966
1966
25
38
31
62
30
46
26
56
52
57
43
28
29
55
13
1972
1972
54 M
60 F
19
74
1974
68 M
64
Cancer,
1977
1980
58 F
82 M
82
75
? Liver disease
ASHD
1968
1971
M
M
M
F
F
M
M
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
F
- AE
- AE
- AE
- AE
59 F - AE
50 M ~ AE
46
78
35
60
60
84
21
75
55
107
77
79
77
88
71
Heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
Acute varicella
Ovarian cancer
Cancer of cervix - NC
Heart disease
Accident
Accident
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
"Old age" (7)
Pneumonia, heart disease
Heart disease
Asthma, heart failure
Heart disease
Cancer of uterus ~ NC
58
51
Influenza-pneumonia
Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Heart disease
stomach
B. Utirik exposed
1956
1957
1957
2118 M
2219 F
2222 F
24
57
63
?
?
?
1959
1959
1959
2122 M
2127 M
2170 M
87
73
46
? CVA
?
?
1960
2116 F
27
?
1958
1959
1960
1960
2243 M
2187 F
2131 F
2180 M
50
Drowning
61
Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic
35
76
bronchitis
?
Asthmatic (?)
-
13-