Table 5 Mortality, 1954-1969, by Age as of 1954 Group Age: <10 Rongelap (175 rads) 0/19* Unexposed** 0/56 Ailingnae (69 rads) Utirik (14 rads) — 0/6 1/56 11-20 21-30 1/13 0/10 2/7 1/28 0/30 4/21 0/1 0/20 31-40 41-50 0/1 3/15 1/1 5/18 51-60 3/5 0/1 9/13 3/17 61-70 71-80 >80 Total t/1 3/3 1/1: 11/64 1/1 1/1 3/3 8/11 4/17 _— 3/4 — — 5/18— 30/157 16/189 *Mortality/number in group. **This group was not examined until 1957 and includes occasional new subjects examined through 1966 (Subject 1511). Table 6 Adult Mortality Exposed Subject Year Age No. & sex 24 38 46M 78M 30 60F 1962 1962 26 56 21M 75F 1963 57 1956 1957 1958 1959 31* 62 1962 46 1962 1963 52 1964 1965 43* 28* Heart disease Heart disease, diabetes Year 1958 1959 Subject Age No. & sex 857 854 65M 55 F Cerebral thrombosis Infection in urinary tract, diabetes 68 F Diabetes, cancer of cervix (?) Acute varicella Ovarian cancer 1960 1960 933 927 84M Heart disease 1962 953 48M 893 61F 55 F 107 F 77¥F 79F 29* 55 77M 88M 1968 59* 58F 13 Probable cause 35M 60 F 1966 1966 1966 Unexpased 71F Cancerof cervix*" 1960 861 Accident Accident 1962 1963 “Old age” (?) 1964 862 Asthma,heart failure Heart disease 1967 1967 967 936 Influenza~pneumonia 1968 Poliomyelitis, bulbar Pneumonia,heart disease Heart disease Cancerof uterus** 1964 1964 1966 1967 848 886 56M 65M 41F 54M_ 91M 894 964 68 F 90 M_ 853 62M 860 24M 76F 78M Probable cause Pneumonia, secondary to influenza Pneumonia,secondary to influenza Status asthmaticus Neurosyphilis (?) Asthma (?) Dhiabetes Heart disease Pneumonia Probably cardiovascular (?) Accident Infection complicating diabetes Diabetes Congestive heart failure *Ailingnae group. **Not confirmed by autopsy or biopsy. to the United States for extensive thyroid studies at Brookhaven National Laboratory and later surgery in Boston. In 1969 five further cases were brought over for thyroid studies and surgery in Cleveland. The deaths during the past 3 years are included in Tables 5 and 6. Three exposed people died. The 98-year-old woman (#59) referred to above, who died of pneumonia complicating influenza, had had a partial thyroidectomyfor benign thyroid adenomathe previous year. Another death, that of a 71-year-old woman (#13), was thoughtto be fe Qt oh rvey. due to cancer Whe uterus, and an 88-year-old man (#55) dietcardiovascular disease with heart failure. Among the unexposed population three older men died, one with diabetes (#853), owl i} £ i.) *r one with heart failure (#860) and one from unknown cause ( #964). An older woman ( #936) died of complications of diabetes. A 24-year-old male (#967) died in an auto accident. The boy mentioned above died of complications of influenza. During the past 15 years, 16 deaths have occurred among the exposed Rongelap people. This represents 13.0 deaths per 1000 persons per annum comparedwith 8.3 per 1000 for the Marshall Islands as a whole (1960). Table 7 lists the births and miscarriages during the last 3 years for both populations. The 33 births during the 3-year period in the exposed group, compared with 30 in the unexposed group,are in line with the birth rate in previous years and show no impairmentoffertility in the exposed women.