Table 3.
Mortality Among Rongelap and Utirik People (as of 1980).
(Possible causes comprise diseases noted in the medical records which might be
etiologically related to death. AE = Ailinginae exposed. NC = not confirmed
by biopsy or autopsy.)
Subject No.
Year
A.
& sex
Age
Possible causes
46
78
35
60
60
84
21
75
Heart disease
Heart disease, diabetes
Acute varicella
Ovarian cancer
Cancer of cervix - NC
Heart disease
Accident
Accident
77
79
77
88
71
58
Pneumonia, heart disease
Heart disease
Asthma, heart failure
Heart disease
Cancer of uterus — NC
Influenza~pneumonia
Rongelap exposed
1956
1957
1958
1959
1962
1962
1962
1962
1963
1963
1964
1965
1966
1966
1966
1968
1971
1972
25
38
31
62
30
46
26
56
M
M
M - AE
F
F
M
M
F
43
28
29
55
13
59
F
F
M
M
F
F
60
68
58
82
F
M
F
M
52 F
57 F
- AE
- AE
- AE
- AE
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
"Old age" (7)
51
19
Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown
Acute myelogenous leukemia
2118 M
2219 F
2222 F
24
57
63
?
?
?
1959
1959
1959
2122 M
2127 M
2170 M
87
73
46
61
2
?
?
Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic
1960
1960
2116 F
2131 F
27
35
?
?
1972
1974
1977
1980
50 M - AE
54 M
55
107
74
64
82
75
Heart disease
Cancer, stomach
? Liver disease
ASHD
B. Utirik exposed
1956 |.
1957
1957
1958
1959
1960
2243 M
2187 F
2180 M
50
Drowning
76
CVA
bronchitis
Asthmatic (?)
-
13-