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Marshallese Populations Examined Since 1954
Group
Original number
in group
- Number
living (1969)
67
56
157
127
99
180¢
Frequency
of exams
SubjectNos.
Exposed
Rongelap*
Ailingnae>
Utirik
,
19
14
Annual
1-86
Annual
1-86
3-4 years
2101-2257
Unexposed_
Rongelap
;
Rita
Majuro
BF
Annual since 10597
Lo.
91955-195¢
115
Coot
1954 ony
801-1104
1500-1540
10060-1082
700-800
Children Conceived After the Fallout
Of exposed parent(s)
Of unexposed parents
89
110
Annual
Annual
87-181
801-1104
1500-1540
®Includes 3 in utero children.
bIncludes 1 in utero child.
‘Individuals have been added since 1957 when this group was first available.
team. In July 1957, after careful evaluation of
radioactive contamination, Rongelap Island was
consideredsafe for habitation. A new village was
constructed, and the Rongelap people were moved
there by Navy ship. (See frontispiece.)
The annualsurveys are carried out at Rongelap
andalso at Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, where
a number of Rongelap and Utirik people now
reside. Examinations on Utirik Atoll are carried
out about once every 3 years.
A group of more than 100 Rongelap people,
whowererelatives of the exposed people but had
been awayfrom theisland at the time of the ac-
cident, moved back with the exposed people to
their home island and have served as an ideal
comparison population for the studies. The number has since increased to >200.
Since the accumulation of data from these surveys is becoming increasingly voluminous, survey
reports published by this Laboratory are made as
complete as possible and include a considerabie
amount of raw data, muchof it in appendices, so
that others may have access to complete data.
A summary of early andlate findings covering
the entire 15-year period is presented at the end
of this report.