122 DASA 2019-2 and we found them to be normal. However, since that time, as anaside, we have discovered that these people have a peculiar protein in the blood, an icdoprotein which is quite high and no doubt gave us false levels of the PBl readings earliez, and this may have thrown us off the track. , DUNHAM: It is true of all Marshall Islanders ? CONARD: Yes. DUNHAM: I see. CONARD: Four years ago we first noted a thyroid nodule in a 12year-old girl andsince that time there have been increasing numbers of these abnormalities until now we have 19 cases of thyroid abnormalities; 17 people with nodules and two boys with completely nonfunctioning glands, that is, a hypothyroid situation (References 9, 18, 19). WARREN: Myxedema? CONARD: They had signs of rnyxedema, yes. most dwarfed boys in the village. FREMONT-SMITH: never developed? They were the two Were these thyroids that were destroyed or CONARD: Presumably destroyed. FREMONT-SMITH: How old were they? CONARD: They were at the age of 15 to 18 months, which seems to be a critical age for children, FREMONT-SMITH: CONARD: When they were exposed? Yes. MILLER: Was there any other child in that age range at the time of exxosure? . CONARD: range. There were several in the one-to-three years of age