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.
by biopsy or autopsy.)
Subject No.
& sex
Year
A.
AE = Ailinginae exposed.
WC = not confirmed
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
79
77
88
71
58
Heart disease
Asthma, heart failure
Heart disease
Cancer of uterus ~ NC
Inf luenza-pneumonia
Rongelap exposed
1956
1957
1958
1959
1962
1962
1962
1962
25 M
38 M
31 M - AE
62 F
30 F
SEM
26 M
56 F
1963
1963
1964
52 F
57 F
43 F - AE
55
107
77
1971
1972
50 M - AE
54 M
51
19
Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown
Acute myelogenous leukemia
1972
60 F
74
Heart disease
1977
58 F
82
? Liver disease
1965
1966
1966
1966
1968
1974
1980
28
29
55
13
59
F - AE
M - AE
M
F
F - AE
68 M
64
82 M
75
Poliomyelitis, bulbar
"Old age" (7)
Pneumonia, heart disease
Cancer, stomach
ASHD
B. Utirik exposed
1956
1957
2118 M
2219 F
24
57
?
?
1958
1959
1959
1959
1959
2243
2122
2127
2170
2187
50
87
73
46
61
Drowning
2? CVA
?
?
Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic
1957
1960
1960
1960
2222 F
M
M
M
M
F
2116 F
2131 F
2180 M
63
27
35
76 *
?
tronchitis
?
?
Asthmatic (7?)
-~ 13<-
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