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Table 9

Pregnancy Terminations (Abortions, Miscarriages, and Neonatal Deaths)
Summanized by Five-Year Intervals, 1954-1973

Terminations/total pregnancies
1954-1958

Exposed females

+ Exposed males

+ Unexposed males

Unexposed females
+ Exposed males

+ Unexposed males

1959-1963

No.

%

No.

10/30

33.3

5/30

6/11

54.5

2,20

6/43
li4

14.0
25.0

4/19.

5/39

21.1

12.8

1964-1968

1969-1973

%

No.

%

No.

%

16.6

10/46

21.7

10/47

21.3

3/10

30.0

10.0

8/31

25.8

10/42

23.8

7/47
0/6

14.9
0

9/53
1/4

17.0
25.0

18/87
1/15

20.7
6.7

7/41

2/15

17.1

8/48

13.3

16.3

0/5

17/72

0

23.6

Table 10
Adult Mortality, Rongelap
Exposed (Av. age at death: 6445)
Year

Subject
No.

Age
& sex

1956
1957
1958

25
38
31"

46M
78M
35M

Heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
sCAccutevaricella

1959

62 -

60 F

Ovarian cancer

1962
1962
1962
1962

30
46
26
56

1963
1963
1964

52
57
43*

1966

29"

1965

28*

Year

Subject
No.

Age
& sex

Probable cause

1958
1959
1960

857
854
933

65M
55 F
56M

Cerebrai thrombosis
Infection in urinary tract, diabetes
Pneumonia,secondary to influenza

1960

927

65 M

Poliomyelitis, bulbar
“Old age” (7)
Pneumonia, heart disease

1964
1964
1964

893
862
894

61F
91M
68 F

Diabetes
Heartdisease
Pneumonia

77M

Asthma, heartfailure

1967

967

24M

Accident

71F

Cancerof uterus**

60 F
84M
21M
73 F

55F
107 F
77 F
79 F

1966

55

88M

1968

59*

58F

1966
1971

13

50*

1972

54

1974

68

1972

60

Unexposed (Av. age at death: 652.5)

51M
19M

74F

64 M

Probable cause

Cancerof cervix**
Heartdisease
Accident
Accident

Heartdisease

Heartdisease

Influenza-pneumonia

1960
1962
1962
1963

1966
1967

861
953
848
886

964

936

1967

853

68 F
48 M_
41F
54M

90M
76 F

78M

Congestive heart failure

1968

860

852

65 F

cause unknown

1970

884

76M

1970

Cancer, stomach

1970

Asthma, diabetes

72M

Heart disease, diabetes

1515

50M

1970

875

533M

947

64M

1972

1972
1972
1972

1973

1973
1973
1974
1974

918

899

957
858
961

856

898
1506
948
908

Hypertension, diabetes

46 F

1970
1971

* Ailingnae group.
**Not confirmed by autopsy or biopsy.

916

Infection complicating diabetes

Diabetes

1969

Acute myelogenous leukemia

Probably cardiovascular(?)

62M

Acute asphyxiation,
Heart disease

Pneumonia, secondarvto influenza

Diabetes, cancer of cervix | >)
Status asthmaticus
Neurosyphilis (?)
Asthma(?)

76M

64 F
78 F
79M

74M

75 F
65 M_
66M
84 F

? (epileptic)

Hypertensive heart disease
Heart disease (?)
Heart disease (?)

Hemiplegia, pneumonia
Asthma, heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
Heart disease, diabetes

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