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| aur Distributionof Population by Age Groups
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Rongelap —
exposed (116
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people. 1961.
people.
children of
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236
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195
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13
85
(1948-50) (1960)
13
3.9
Children
Total
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4
34
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4
15
(17
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varied,
but generally :increased, since
these people
were first examined in 1957, but the death rate in
this group appears to be about the same as in the
exposed Rongelap group.
Births
exposed aduits}
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Marshall
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Unex posed
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96
(ot the 334 Rongelap people, 267 were exam-
ined during the survey on Kwajalein, Majuro, and
Rongelap. In the exposed group +7 adults, 25
children sage < 20), + children exposed tn utero,
and 23 children of exposed parents were examined,
and in the unexposed comparison population 7/7
adults and 86 children,
.
Since the number of child-bearing females was
not the same in the exposed and unexposed popu-
lations, the birth rate for 1960 was calculated on
the basis of number of births per woman of childbearing age. considered to be from 16 through +5
vears. There were 20 such women in the exposed
group and 29 in the unexposed group (not includ-
ed in either group were + unexposed women whose
spouses were exposed males). In the exposed group
7 babies were born, giving an average of 0.35
births per women, and in the unexposed group | |
babies, giving about the same average (0.38), The
deliveries were reported to be full term and normal. except that one unexposed women (No. 867)
developed severe post-partum hemorrhage and
shock and wassent to the Memorial Hospital at
Majuro. where her Fallopian tubes were tied.
Congenital Anomalies
INTERVAL MEDICAL HISTORY
One baby, born of unexposed parents. was
anencephalic and died several daysafter birth.
Mortality
No deaths occurred during 1960 in the exposed
or comparison population except for two infant
deaths. The four deaths that had occurred in the
exposed group over the 7-year post-exposure peri-
od represent a rate of 7.1 per 1000 population.
which ts about the sameas that reported for the
Marshall Islands as a whole (6.8 per 1000). The
unexposed population on Rongelap Island has
Thefirst instance of congenital anomalyina child
of exposed parents was reported during the past
vear. This was a congenital heart defect in a baby
born of an exposed mother (No. 75) but unexposed father. The baby died at four monthsofage.
Unfortunately the diagnosis was not confirmed by
autopsy. A lowincidence of patent ductusarter1-
osus, congenital deformityof the hip, and congent-
tal hvpopiasia of the middle phalanx ofthe fifth
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