Table | Location of Rongelap People 0 ~ ) Hl 25 l a a l d| 30 5 ren I ow 4 rn Ldetpe gp cazettls Taital See Children of exposed parents Children Scult \fbao.te! Exposed te ia 63 4 i Los Table 2 | aur Distributionof Population by Age Groups _ Rongelap — exposed (116 ine Xposed people. 1961. people. children of includes aon Vee ar [1 st Islands US. +) I. 7 30.0" a 33.8% Se 28.7% a 145 236 2935 r1 13 eer 195 . 13 85 (1948-50) (1960) 13 3.9 Children Total 8 4 34 2 4 15 (17 334 on I 44 b ost . 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} S . ns Seen Marshall LOBL: ——— Unex posed 4 a Rongelap — Acdult sO8 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 BEST AVAILABLE COPY Fo “we -s|6 (Ge ee Ee. . wt = aee eeee ee ee