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-

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