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BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
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October 13,
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11973
1972
Brian Farley
Staff Member
Special Joint Committee Concerning
Rongelap and Utirik Atolls
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Congress of Micronesia
Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950
Dear Mr. Farley:
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Thank you for your letter of October 4, 1972. You requested
a rough summary of the survey. The following summary must be
The medical records and equip-
ment have not yet arrived from the islands.
I understand that the
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quarantine due to the influenza epidemic held up the Militobi
departure for Kwajalein, where our material was to be airshipped
from.
Group
Rongelap
Utirik
Majuro
Rongelap exposed
Children of exposed
Utirik
Rongelap unexposed
23
16
6
46
2
9
14
30
8
Total
49
48
67
Children of unexposed
4
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6
In addition, a large number of other people were examined and
treated for routine ailments during sick call each morning at Rongelap
and Utirik.
At Rongelap an epidemic of severe gastrointestinal
infection, frequently complicated by upper respiratory infection and,
in some cases, by pneumonitis, were treated.
At least a dozen children
were involved. A total of some 40-50 people were treated at sick call
at Rongelap. At Utirik also a large number of children (26 in one
morning) and some 20-30 adults were treated for various ailments. At
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You will remember that in the March survey we were able to
complete the examinations on the Rongelap and Utirik people at
Ebeye. Therefore, the following examinations were performed at
Rongelap, Utirik and Majuro atolls:
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