Incorporated of Long Island, New York.

A second, sch more comprehensive repert

entitled "Some Effects of Ionizing Radiation or. Human Beings,"
July, 1956, by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

was published in

Thereafter,

the

major data published on the people of Rongelap and Utirik was the result of
surveys conducted by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

The reports were

published after three years (March 1957), four years (1958), five and six years

(one report covering 1959-60), seven years (1961), eight years (1962), nine and

(The report covering the years 1970-1972 will be published

sometime during 1973.)

Contained in the reports are descriptions of the annual

surveys and general findings of the doctors who accompanied the team.

A great

number of articles have also been published in journals and periodicals by
participating doctors as a result of their findings in examinations.
From the first year report, to the most recent BNL report, the size,

More specifically, the first report considered general physical conditions,
with special emphasis on effects on the skin, blood, and eyes of the irradiated
Marshallese.

The 1969 report, however, gives a description of general medical

findings from physical examinations, and then very detailed descriptions of
examinations and findings in the following areas:

ophthalmological (eye),

thyroid, aging, blood (both chemical factors and chromosome aberrations) as
90

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includes the results of three annual examinations and numerous appendices.

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in the twelve-month report to 128 in the latest report, which, of course,

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this can be seen by an increase in the number of pages,

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sophistication and scope of the examinations and findings have increased greatly.

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1967, 1968, 1969).

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covering 1965-66), and thirteen, fourteen and fifteen years (one report covering

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ten years (one report covering 1963-64), eleven and twleve years (one report

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