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The early period, Figure 32, shows the initial absence of the 2-4 year peak but a
progressive increase in the early childhood leukaemia rate with increasing
percentage of electrical reticulation.
Figure 33: Childhood leukaemia mortality rates for all races 1949-51, by percent of
residential electrification and age of death, Milham and Ossiander
(2001).
Figure 33 shows that the 2-4 year old peak is well developed in the 1949-51 data
and there remains a gradient with higher leukaemia mortality rates with the
increasing proportion of residential electric reticulation. This is direct, robust,
confirmation of the hypothesis. The early childhood ALL leukaemia and all
leukaemia mortality is attributable to the electromagnetic fields in homes produced
by electrical reticulation.
Milham and Ossiander state that worldwide occurrence of this peak of childhood
leukaemia follows the introduction of electrification. For example, Ramot and
McGrath (1982) found a dramatic shift from childhood lymphoma to leukaemia
(ALL) that occurred in the Arab population in the Gaza Strip after the introduction of
electric power reticulation to homes. Milham and Ossiander (2001) state:
"The authors conclude the childhood leukaemia peak of common Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (cALL) is attributable to residential electrification.
75% of childhood cALL and 60 % of all childhood leukaemia may be
preventable."
This means that the early childhood all leukaemia (