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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.

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