disease not connected with the radiation exposure -- and nine
births, all normal, have occurred among the exposed group.
6. A number of Rongelapese who were not on their home
island at the time of the fallout also have been living on
Tjit or elsewhere in the Marshall Islends.
The size of the
group has been increased by births and also by marriage with
non-residents of Rongelap, bringing the total of those returning
to the island to; approximately 200,
7. A comprehensive program for the return of the Rongelap
people to their home atoll has been approved by the High Commissioner of the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, the
Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, the Commander of Joint
Tas’ Force Seven, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
8. Under this program, the village on Rongelap will be
reconstructed, and subsistence support for the inhabitants will
be provided for a year after their return.
9. A fully equipped medical dispensary will be provided
on Rongelap, and an experienced health aide will be on the
island.
They will be visited monthly by a Trust Territories
physician, and each inhabitant will be given a complete medical
examination yearly.
10. Of the 82 exposed persons, one group of 64 people
received about 175 roentgens whole body gamma radiation, and
a second group of 18 received 69 roentgens.
Fifty-eight
experienced skin lesions which have healed, and 35 showed some
temporary loss of hair.
The internal deposition of radio-
isotopes, including strontium-90, was small,
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