Table 9
Pregnancy Terminations (Abortions, Miscarriages, and Neonatal Deaths)
Summarized by Five-Year Intervals, 1951-1973
Terminations/total pregnancies
1954-1958
Exposed females
+ Exposed males
+ Unexposed males
Unexposed females
+ Exposed males
+ Unexposed males
1939-1963
No.
%
10/30
_
No.
1964-1968
1969-1973
%
No.
%
No.
%
4/19
6/11
33.3
21.1
54.5
5/30
3/10
2/20
30.0
10.0
16.6
10/46
21.7
10/47
21.3
6/43
1/4
14.0
25.0
7/47
0/6
14.9
0
9/53
t/4
17.0
25.0
18/87
1/15
20.7
6.7
5/39
12.8
7/41
2/13
8/31
17.1
8/48
13.3
25.8
0/5
10/42
16.3
0
23.8
17/72
23.6
Table 10
Adult Mortality, Rongelap
Exposed (Av. age at death: 64-5)
Year
1956
Subject
No.
25
Age
& sex
Probable cause
46M
Heart disease
62
60F
Ovarian cancer
1962
46
84M — Heart disease
1963
1963
52
57
1965
1966
1966
1966
28°
29*
55
13
1971
50*
1957
1958
38
31°
1962
30
1959
1962
1962
1964
1968
1972
1972
1974
26
56
43°
59°
54
60
68
78M
35 Ms
60 F
Heart disease, diabetes
Acute varicella
Unexposed (Av. age at death: 652.5)
Subject
Age
1958
857
65M
1960
927
Year
1959
1960
Cancer of cervix**
1960
Accident
Accident
1962
1963
No.
& sex
854 S5F
933
56M
65 M
Probable cause
Cerebral thrombosis
Infection in urinarytract, diabetes
Pneumonia, secondary to influenza
Pneumonia, secondary to influenza
861
68 F
Diabetes, cancer of cervix (?)
848
886
41F
54M
Neurosyphilis (?)
Asthma(?)
68F
Pneumonia
1962
953
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
“Old age” (?)
1964
1964
893
862
TOF
77M
88M
71F
Heart disease
Asthma,heart failure
Heart disease
Cancerof uterus**
1966
1967
1967
1967
964
967
936
853
90M
24M
76F
62M
51M
Acute asphyxiation,
1969
852
65F
1970
1970
916
§=—-1515
46F
30M
Asthma,diabetes
1970
875
53M
? (epileptic)
947
64M
Hypertensive heart disease
961
856
79M
74M
21M
75F
55 F
107 F
77F
58 F
19M
74F
64M
Pneumonia, heart disease
Influenza-pneumonia
cause unknown
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Heart disease
Cancer, stomach
1964
1968
1970
1970
1971
1972
1972 1972
1972
1973
1973
1973
1974
1974
*Ailingnae group.
**Not confirmed by autopsy or biopsy.
894
860
884
918
899
957
858
898
1506
948
908
48M
61F
91M
78M
76M
72M
76M
64F
78F
75 F
65M
66M
84 F
‘
Status asthmaticus
Diabetes
Heart disease
Probably cardiovascular(?)
Accident
Infection complicating diabetes
Diabetes
Congestive heart failure
Hypertension, diabetes
Heart disease, diabetes
.
Heart disease (?)
Heart disease (?)
Hemiplegia, pneumonia
Asthma, heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
Heart disease, diabetes