Rongelap Island during the period of the examinations, Smaller groups of Ae see Rongelap people were also examined at Ebeye, (Kwajalein Atoll), and Majuro, The attitude of the people as usual was most cordial and cooperative. Interval Medical History During the past year the Rongelap people have been generally in good health, and their nutritional status appears to have been satisfactory, An epidemic of what is believed to have been Asiatic influenza with acute upper CHER HE Met respiratory manifestations occurred in about half of the population in the © spring of 1964, An outbreak of diarrhea, cause unknown, involved a large segment of the population during January and February, 1965, On Ebeye Island, whe re about 100 Rongelap people live, an outbreak of conjunctivitis occurred during the year, but this responded to antibiotic treatment, Four children with varying degrees of paralysis, following a poliomyelitis epidemic in 1963, were treated and fitted with braces at Majuro, four cataract cases and one fistula in ano, Surgery was performed on Deaths occurred in one 76 year old exposed woman and three unexposed people (see below), The most outstanding finding since the 1964 survey has been the increasing number of cases of thyroid nodules to be described below, During the March 1965 survey and again in September, meetings with the people were held in order to explain the survey procedures and discuss the thyroid cases, They seemed to have accepted the situation in regard to the thyroid lesions calmly, and there has been no expression of great concern, Deaths. No. 43, a 77 year old exposed woman died of pneumonia, She had had arteriosclerotic heart disease, asthma, and marked peripheral sclerosis with occlusion of the right radial artery. 500141 She was quite senile.