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Table 8
Births and Fetal Deaths* by Year
Children
Year
Women aged 15-45
Total pregnancies
Live births
% Pregnancies
terminating
—in miscarriage
M
F
Miscarriages*
0
{
4
I
1
2
100
17
33
43
17
10
0
Exposed?
1954°¢
1955
1956
19
20
20
1
6
6
0
5
4
0
4
0
1958
1959
1960
1961
22
22
24
23
14
6
10
7
8
5
9
6
4
2
3
2
4
3
4
4
6
]
I
1
1963
27
8
7
3
4
!
6
3
2
L
3
2
5
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
99
1
l
1
10
24
1962
26
30
30
6
3
2
1956
29
9
1958
1959
30
29
1957
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966¢
30
_
4°
4
1964
1965
19664
"
—_Unexposed
7
M1
9
29
29
30
32
32
32
32
2
2
5
9
10
6
4
0
3
i
60
3
5
2
25
12
18
10
10
6
8
9
8
10
5
5
4
3
3
3
l
1
2
0
l
20
0
17
6
12
7
5
10
5
2
8
3
3
2
2
|
2
2
17
17
29
I
@Includes sullbirths and neonatal deaths.
"Includes nonexposed females mated to exposed males.
“Includes only children conceived after March 1, 1954.
0
5
9
4
0
0
diarrhea, and in about 5 cases bloody stools, fever,
and vomiting were noted. No deaths occurred, and
the cases improved on antibiotic treatment.
10U
4Tncludes data only through March 1966.
*Includes twins.
Vital Statistics on the Utirik People
Since a new health aide was not able to locate
medica! records covering the past 3 years, vital
statistics on the Utirik people were particularly
difficult to obtain. It appeared that 9 people of this
exposed group haddied over the past 2 years. The
causes of death could not be determined. This
makesa total of 24 deaths in the 157 people during the 12-year period since exposure. No major
epidemics of disease were reported. During the
summer of 1964 a numberof children developed
l
Table 9
Sex Distribution of Rongelap Children Born Since 1954
(including somestillborn}
Sex of children
Parents
Male
Female
Exposed male and exposed female
13
12
Unexposed male and exposed female
12
15
Exposed male and unexposed female
3
7
Exposed female and unknown male
2
2
61
44
Unexposed male and unexposed female
tes Bi ar Fs
21
1957