3. Lymphocytes.

By the third day after exposure the mean lympho-

cyte level had fallen to about 55% in the adults and 25% in the children of

the unexposed comparison population.

(Figure 1).

The levels remained low

Jonger than the neutrophiles and have been very slow in recovering.

There

was little recovery by 6 months Dut an upward trend has since occurred.
After 3 years the lymphocytes were slightly below the mean level of the com
parison population for all age groups and distributional studies of individual

counts showed more lower counts in the exposed groupa.

The 4 year study

showed the highest level thus far attained (3600 cells/mm® compared to
3700 cells/nm in the unexposed people) and recovery of this blood elenent
is considered almost complete.

However, a scattergram of the individual

counts plotted according to age and accumulative distribution curves showed
more of the counts to be lower than in the unexposed population.
4. Platelets.

There was a steady reduction in the platelets in

the peripheral blood after exposure reaching a low of about 30% of the un~

exposed group by the fourth week.

(See Figure 2).

A rapid recovery trend

was then followed by a fluctuating, slow recovery pattern, the males show
ing slower recovery than the females.

Bven at 4 years post-exposure the

platelet procuction does not appear to have recovered completely.

The counts

were higher than a year ago but compared with mean unexposed levels were

about 12% lower in the males (greater than 10 years of age) and 9% lower in
the females.

A scattergram (Figure 3) shows individual counts in the maleg

and the mean curve of the controls plotted against age.

ponderantly below the control curve.

The counts are pree-

This trend is not as marked in the

females,
53. Eosinophiles and monocytes showed depression and recovery roughly
paralleling the neutrophiles.
Studied.

Bosinophilia is present in all the populations

During the past survey the differential counts showed eosinophilia
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