4
Table 4
Present Known Location of Rongelap and Utirik People Under Study
Rongelap and
Ailingnae exposed
Adults
{age >19)
Children
(age 12-19)
Children
of exposed
parent(s)
7
20
4
il
5
21
0
3
0
i
0
0
52
2i*
Mayjuro
Ebeye
Rongelap
Utirik
Otheratolls
Total
22
5
Ronee
| unexposed
Utirik exposed
Adults
(age >19)
Children
‘age < 19)
Adults
(age > 19)
12
35
12
4]
9
15
9
8
38
151
0
Il
0
8
56
3
26
5
82
33
136
85
48
34
57
60
115
75
Children
(age 12-19)
0
Total
0
193
317
*Twoof the 23 children moved up to the adult group.
Table 5
Percent Distribution by Age and Sex of Rongelap Populations Under Studv. 1966
Rongelap and Ailingnae exposed
Males
Age group
Unexposed
Females
Males
Females
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
©
> 12-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
15
3
5
4
20.6
4.1
6.8
5.5
14
9
4
6
19.2
12.3
5.5
8.2
20
13
16
12
12.5
8.1
10.0
7.5
24
12
15
8
13.0
a)
a4
30
31-60
5
6.8
2.7
3
4.1
10
7
4.4
9
3.6
!
1.4
]
1.4
3
3.1
4
23
35
47.9
38
52.1
83
51.9
77
48.1
61-70
2
>70
Total
I
L.4
Children of exposed parent(s)
<12
28
21.1%
*Percent in total population:
32
28 x 100
5
$1
Children of unexposed parents
24.1”
61
23.1*
43
16. 3*
28
and later surgery in Boston: 3 in the summer of
1965 and 5 in the summerof 1966. These cases
will be discussed in detail below.
Deaths
Table 6 lists the times and causes of death in
both exposed and comparison populations. The
deaths subsequent to the 1964 survey were as
follows.
6.3
A 77-year-old womanin the Ailingnae group
(No. 43) died of pneumonia. She hadhad arterio-
sclerotic heart disease, asthma, and marked pe-
ripheralsclerosis with occlusion of the right radial
artery, and was quite senile. A 79-year-old exposed womanin the Ailingnae group (No. 28) died
in December 1965 of cardiac decompensation. She
had developed ankle edema, dyspnea, cough, and
anorexia prior to death. A 77-year-old exposed
man, also in the Ailingnae group (No. 29), died in
February 1966, probably of asthma.
In the comparison population, a 61-year-old
woman (No. 893) died of acute cellulitis of the