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9. A fully equipped medical dispensary will be‘provided
on Rongelap, and an “experienced health aide wit be on ‘the- vis
island.
They will be visited nonthly by a Trust Territories”
physician, and each inhabitant will be given a complete medical
examination yearly.
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175 roentgens whole body gamma
a second group of 18 received 69 roentgens.
radiation, and
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temporary loss (of hair.
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