incidence does not seem greater than that in unexposed Marshallese people."
(p.

18)

This statement was revised somewhat in the five and six year report

after review of a table summarizing information concerning 1958 pregnancy
terminations.

The table showed that exposed Rongelap women had fewer live

births, more miscarriages without live births,

fewer recorded pregnancies,

more women with one or more, or two or more miscarriages, and more pregnancies
terminating in miscarriages than an unexposed control group.

Especially

significant was the fact that 41 percent of exposed Rongelap women who were
pregnant had one or more miscarriages, while unexposed Rongelap women during
the same period had only 28 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriages.
.

report noted that “The date on pregnancy terminations .

The

. also show an

increased incidence of miscarriage in the exposed group."
As to stillbirths and miscarriages in general, when the people themselves
were questioned,

they seemed to feel that there was an increase.

On Rongelap,

in particular, the people mentioned four instances of unusual deliveries after
the bomb:

one woman (supposedly irradiated during the firgt three months)

delivered a "grape-like" mass; another (supposedly irradiated at nine months)
delivered a baby whose brains were outside of the skull;

another woman's baby

was born with a deformed leg and later died; and a fourth woman (irradiated at
five months on Ailinginae) delivered a baby whose eyes protruded from its
head, making it look like an "octopus.''

A check of health records later

indicated that the baby with the deformed leg whose mother was said to have
been irradiated at nine months, was born on August 17,
time had passed since the incident,

1960.

Since so long a

it is possible that faulty memory has

something to do with these stories -- however,

it is equally possible that

since no doctor was available to examine these stillbirths and reported
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