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Figure 6. Medicai history being taken by a Marshailese practitioner.
Table 6
Mortality
Exposed
Year
Subject Age
No. & sex
Probable cause
Year
1958
1956
25
46M
Hypertensive heart disease
*1966
29
77M_
Asthma, heartfailure
1957
*1958
1959
1962
1962
1962
1962
1963
1963
*1964
*1965
38 78M
31 35M
62 60F
30 60F
46 84M
26 21M
56 75F
52 55F
57 107 F
43 77F
28 79F
* Ailingnae group.
Unexposed
Coronary heart disease, diabetes
Acute varicella
Ovarian cancer
Cancer of cervix**
Arteriosclerotic heart disease
Brain damagefollowing fall from tree
Fractured vertebrae
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
“Old age’’(?)
Pneumonia, heart disease
Heart disease
1959
1960
1960
1960
1962
1962
1963
1964
1964
1964
Subject Age _
No.
& sex
857
65M
854
933
927
861
953
848
886
893
862
894
55F
56M
65M
68F
48M
41F
54M
61F
91M
68F
Probable cause
Cerebral! thrombosis(?)
Infection urinary tract. diabetes
Pneumonia secondary to influenza
Pneumonia secondary to influenza
Dhabetes, cancer cervix?)
Status asthmaticus
Neurosyphilis(?)
Asthma/(?)
Dhiabetes
Heart disease
Pneumonia
**Not confirmed by autopsy or biopsy.