Table 3.
Mortality Among Rongelap and Utirik People (as of 1980).
(Possible causes comprise diseases noted in the medical records which might be
etiologically related to death. AE = Ailinginae exposed. NC = not confirmed
by biopsy or autopsy.)
Subject No.
Year
A.
& sex
Age
Possible causes
Heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
Rongelap exposed
1956
1957
25 M
38 M
46
78
1959
1962
1962
62 F
30 F
46 M
60
60
84
1958
31 M- AE.
1962
1962
1963
1963
1964
26
56
52
57
43
.
1965
1966
1966
Acute varicella
Ovarian cancer
Cancer of cervix - NC
Heart disease
M
F
F
F
F - AE
21
75
55
107
77
29 M - AE
77
Asthma, heart failure
28 F - AE
1966
35
79
Accident
Accident
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
"Old age" (2)
Pneumonia, heart disease
Heart disease
1968
1971
1972
55 M
13 F
59 F - AE
50 M - AE
34 M
88
71
58
51
19
Influenza-pneumonia
Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown
Acute myelogenous leukemia
1972
1974
60 F
68 M
74
64
Heart disease
Cancer, stomach
1980
82 M
75
ASHD
M
F
F
M
M
M
M
F
24
57
63
50
87
73
46
61
2116 F
2131 F
2180 M
27
35
76
?
?
2
Drowning
? CVA
?
?
Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic
bronchitis
?
2
Asthmatic (?)
1977
58 F
82
Heart disease
Cancer of uterus - NC
? Liver disease
B. Utirik exposed
al
-13{
c
2118
2219
2222
2243
2122
2127
2170
2187
cc.
Cit
cl}
1956
1957
1957
1958
1959
1959
1959
1959
.
1960
1960
1960