Table 3 (continued)
Physical Findings in Rongelap Adults, 1962
Exposed (48 examined)
Subject Nos.
Paralysis, facial
%
82
Pleural thickening or adhesions
Prolapse of vaginal wall
Prostatic hypertrophy
Rheumatic Reart disease
Rheumatoid arthritis
2.1
4.2
6.2
2.1
29, 55, 57, 46, 28
63
11, 55
Tachycardia
Tonsilar hypertrophy
28
27, 76
Trichomonas
Tumor, benign
9,12, 58
4,7, 9, 10, 13, 57,
Ulceration, lower colon
Varicose veins
30
13
Vitiligo
Subject Nos.
2.1
58
63, 64
L1, 29, 82
76
Senility
Sinusitis
Syphilis (?) arrested
Control (86 examined}
64
10.4
2.1
4.2
%
823, 826, 875, 969
4.6
855, 864, 910, 915, 947, 964
7.0
878
2.2
846, 860
2.3
826, 831, 833, 864, 867, 898,
934, 958
9.3
862, 946
2.1
4.2
6.2
14.6
2.3
942
853, 864, 875, 885, 964, 969,
1.2
9.3
853, 971
2.3
970, 1007
2.1
2.1
Table 4
tending from the limbus 2 to 3 mm toward the
Eye Findings in Adult Marshallese People, 1962
pupil and lying in the horizontal axis of the palpe-
eed
examined)
Number
Pterygium and pinguecula
Cataracts
'
Lenticular opacities (presenile and congenital}
21
7
bral aperture. The pigment was in the epithelial
layers of the cornea. Since this is not the usual con-
cor~
examined)
% Number
43.0
145
34
12
genital type of corneal pigmentation, it seems pos-
13.0
Il
9
22.9
190
20
9
21.7
Congenital
10
2708
22
423.9
3
6.2
3
3.2
1
1.0
Acquired
Healed choroiditis
3
6.2
Retinal scars
Strabismus
Nystagmus
5
3
1
4.16
6.2
2.0
Argyll
Robertson pupil
Seventh nerve weakness
2
,
20
4.6
Phthisis bulbi
Anterior staphylomata
Healed uveitis
Corneal foreign body
(coral)
Retinal arteriosclerosis
Diabetic retinopathy
Arcussenilis
Vitreous opacities
Macular degeneration
Driisen
Congenital abnormalities
Retinal vessels
Large corneas
Remnant of hyalotd
1
1
Il
2.0
2.0
.
seen in America. No cases of retinitis pigmentosa,
thyroidism were noted.
Two unusual congenital defects were found
among the 140 people -<amined. Six people exhibited large corneas, and 8 had abnormaily large
punctate retinal vessels. The latter were not typical of hemangiomata. It is planned to document
.
As has been noted before, arcus senilis occurs in
1
25.0
23
25.0
1
2.0
3
-
6.24
46
124
103
416
the Marshallese with a higher incidence and at an
earlier age than generally seen in Americans. The
1.0
12
2.0
.
these findings gS by OY P pictures in a future surve
Vey:
13.0
2.0
.
glaucoma, or eye findings characteristic of hyper-
20
11
l
:
Visual acuity was higher in both groups than that
,
124
6
>
In both the exposed and control groups, there
was a low incidencé of myopia and strabismus.
98
6
I
contamination of the eyes of the exposed group by
fallout (probably the beta component).
369
Corneal scars
Corneal pigmentation
sible that it may have resulted from the irradiation
%
incidence in both exposed and control groups was
about the same
I
109
3.2
:
"
12 children
had
night
visi
na recent survey caildren a night vision
defect due to vitamin A deficiency. In this survey
no similar cases were encountered, possibly be-
5
4
cause of the increased growth and consumption of
5.4
43
papaya and squash. Leprosy and yawsare endemic
in the Marshall Islands. Two cases of 7th nerve
weakness were noted, one in a leprous patient. In
14