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masturbation on a large scale of Marshallese.

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DR.

You are dealing with a group where

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there is no control.

You would have to use the Uterikans

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as control.

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who the fathers are.

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MR, IMIRIE:

Since 1945,

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You could only use the control years

because before that it was Japanese.

DR. DUNHAM:

And up to 1950 there was no

penicillin to clear up the gonorrhea and keep the tubes open.

CDR. CRONKITE:

In terms of birth per unit of time

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or anything like that, I think it would be meaningful,

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because the Navy cured the gonorrhea, and all the women

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are now fertile, as amply demonstrated.

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DR. DUNHAM:

Furthermore, the data in Japan

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suggests that as far as live births and so on are concerned,

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there are pretty good data on that.

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large numbers of people studied both control and irradiated

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population, and there is apparently no difference.

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has been a general drop in birth rate in Hiroshima and

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Nagasaki, but it is the same in the control population as

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in the radiated.

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A lot of it where

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This group which has undoubtedly received

all of them, something less than 200 r, I don't think you

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would expect fo find a thing on overall birth rate.

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that sort of thing.

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