APPENDIX | Rongelap Group and Control Mean Blood Counts by Day and by Age WBC («10°73 Postexposure day 3 ? 10 12 15 18 22 26 30 33 39 43 47 31 36 63 70 74 6-mo survey l-vr survey 2-vr survey 3-vr survey 4-vr survey O-¥Pr Survey 6-vr survey Majuro controls Rita controls, 6 mo Rita controls, | yr Rita controls, 2 yr Rongelap controls. 3 vr Rongelap controls, + vr Rongelap controls, 5 vr (x10-') Lymphocytes Platelets (x 10°?) <5 D5 Male <l0 Male >I10 90 82 49 6.2 6.6 7.1 5.9 63 5.9 65 6.7 7.2 7.0 7.4 5.7 6.1 76 78 6.5 6.2 5.7 3.5 5.2 5.2 539 5.8 6.7 56 7.0 60 7.7 60 7.6 65 —~ 85 6.6 10.1 81 {1.8 8.6 8.6 69 64 47 — ~ 3.5 435 35 3.9 3.2 4.1 3.4 4.7 43 3.0 3.0 3.9 40 53 3.1 3.8 3.0 3.3 20 26 2.6 3.3 26 3.5 35 3. 3.9 3.6 38 4. _ _— 46 4.2 47 0648 5.9 4.8 4.137 18 —_ 26 2.) 2.4 2.4 26 2.3 3.2 3.2 26 29 3.1 34 3.7 3.7 3.3 — 36 46 47 3.7 2.2 — 2.1 1.7 19 2.1 2.1 18 21 2.0 2.0 2.3 2.4 21 24 23 2.2 — 2.2 28 31 27 — _ 28.2 — 27.1 21.8 16.8 13.2 4.1 17.9 25.5 26.8 24.6 22.1 — 23.1 — 26.2 24.4 26.6 30.0 32.0 89 13.50 3.3 bY 46 b.0 3.6 4.0 32.3 32.3 >5 7.35 9.3 — 65 13.2 97 10.7 7.6 _— 14.0 89 98 69 11.2 8.0 13.7 10.1 <5 — 48 5.4. _ 70 40 40 6.2 3.4 4.8 33 4.8 3.2 = 44 3.4 3.6 3.2 —7.400 47 ~~ 5.6 4.7 6.2 6.2 27 4.1 37 = 3.6 29 37 4.1 “Excluding pregnancy. 61 Monocytes (x 10-*) 55 <5 - Neutrophils — 41.2 33.0 37.5 35.5 32.6 38.8 35.8 (x10) Female allages Total group _— —_— 22.7 — 21.3 19.1 14.6 12.9 12.3 16.6 22.0 20.9 20.6 17.5 —~ 18.2 — 21.7 20.3 19.5 21.4 22.1 — _ 24.9 — 21.7 21.8 15.2 10.9 11.8 15.1 22.4 23.2 23.9 21.2 — 20.2 — 24.7 23.2 276 20.5 23.1 — — 24.8 — 22.5 21.0 15.3 11.9 12.3 16.0 22.8 23.2 23.1 20.3 — 20.1 — 2.1 22.6 24.9 24.7 — 27.1 24.4 Wi 8 2 _ — —_— 25.8 27.3 24.5 24.2 26.9 30.7 28.0 — 36.5 30.9 29.4" 31.2 30.0 34.0 33.6 — 33.4 30.4 27.6 29.5 — — — <5 Eosinophils (x lO"? ) >5 <5 D5 0.8 0.3 _ — 29 #17 42 5.4 3.0 2.3 2.7 17 19 §=62.0 19 861.6 15 0.9 17 61.6 09 09 LboooLl 10 61.6 2.5 [6 E7 £2 05 0.9 — — — — 14 1.1 07 13 27 1.5 1.20 07 0.1 — | 3.5 2.3 18 3.4 26 0.5 1+ 1.) 8 — 0.3 34 — 25 H7 Yo 6.4 07 — 1.6 1.9 1.3 1.6 18 13 22 22 1.0 08 °O5 O07 — 06 19 — #16 28 3.3 $5 1.5 247 7.9 7.0 4.0 5.0 — 20 19 14 14 2.3 3.7 1.1 2.0 0.6 290 47 — 15 0.7 1.1 24 —95 4.2 —-— 12.8 2 7.0 6.2 27 47 48 = 66 40 45 6.0