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Table 4
Present Known Location of Rongelap and Uurik People Under Study
Rongelap and
Ailingnae exposed
Rongelap unexposed
Children
Uurik exposed
Adults
(age >19)
Children
{age 12-19)
of exposed
parent(s)
Adults
(age >19)
Children
(age <19)
Adults
(age >19)
7
20
22
4
11
3
5
2]
34
12
35
a7
12
41
75
9
15
0
3
l
0
11
8
60
115
Majuro
Ebeye
Rongelap
Utirik
0
Otheratolls
Tota]
0
52
0
21*
0
Children
(age 12-19)
9
8
0
38
151
193
5
33
0
56
26
136
85
48
3
Total
82
517
*Twoof the 23 children moved upto the adult group.
_ Table 5
Percent Distribution by Age and Sex of Rongelap Populations Under Study. 1966
Rongelap and Ailingnae exposed
Males
Age group
Unexposed
Females
Maies
No.
%
No.
%
> 12-20
15
20.6
14
19.2
31-40
41-50
5
4
6.8
5.5.
4
6
5.5
8.2
21-30
3
351-60
61-70
5
2
> 70
l
Total
35
4.1
9
6.8
2.7
|
3
1.4
I
47.9
38
No.
12.3
%
No.
%
20
12.5
24
15.0
16
12
10.0
7.5
15
8
9.4
5.0
5
3.1
4
2.5
13
1.4
4.1
7
10
1.4
52.1
83
Children of exposed parent(s)
<12
28
21.1"
*Percent in total population:
32
28 x 100
Females
8.1
4.4
6.3
51.9
12
7.5
9
3
77
3.6
3.1
48.1
Children of unexposed parents
24.1*
28
384+ =133
and later surgery in Boston: 3 in the summerof
1965 and 5 in the summerof 1966. These cases
will be discussed in detail below.
Deaths
Table 6 lists the times and causes of death in
both exposed and comparison populations. The
deaths subsequent to the 1964 survey were as
follows.
A 77-year-old womanin the Ailingnae group
(No. 43) died of pneumonia. She had had arterio-
61
23.1*
43
16.3*
x 100= 21.1; etc.
sclerotic heart disease, asthma, and marked peripheralsclerosis with occlusion of the right radia!
artery, and was quite senile. A 79-year-old ex-
posed womanin the Ailingnae group (No. 28) died
in December 1965 of cardiac decompensation. She
had developed ankle edema, dyspnea, cough, and
anorexia prior to death. A 77-year-old exposed
man, also in the Ailingnae group (No. 29), died in
February 1966, probably of asthma.
In the comparison population, a 61-year-old
woman (No. 893) died of acute cellulitis of the