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TABLE 41.
Immaturity as Underlying or Associated Cause of Neonatal Mortality' in 15 Projects.
Project
Immaturity
Total Total -
neonata
with Underying
Associated cause
deaths immaturity causen
Total Contributory Consequence
No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ........... 568 3,227.3 294 1,670.5 50 284.1 244 1,386.4 130 772.7 108 613.0
San Juan Province ......... 006 3,878.4 578 2,474.3 15 64.2 503 2,410.1 374 1,001.0 18 809.A
BOLIVIA project ........... 1,091 2,000.8 483 1,284.2 43 114.3 440 1,169.0 294 781.7 140 388.2
BRAZIL
Recife .................... 1,073 3,529.6 699 2.299.3 69 104.1 040 2,105.3 465 1.529.0175 575.7
RibeirAo Pr~to ............ 515 2,823.5 330 1,858.0 5 27.4 334 1,&31.1 225 1,233.6 109 597.6
SAo Paulo ................ 1,958 3,306.0 1,164 2,001.4 44 75.7 1,120 1,925.7730 1,255.2 390 670.0
CANADA
Sherbrooke ............... 229 1,340.4 106 978.2 0 53.0 157 925.2 80 471.4 77 453.7
CHILE project ............. 1,160 2,661.8 800 1,835.7 30 68.8 770 1,766.9415 052.3 355 814.0
COLOMBIA
Call ..................... 536 2,540.3 310 1,469.2 19 90.0 291 1,379.1 156 739.3 135 639.8
Cartagena ................ 401 2,240.2 248 1,385.5 13 72.6 235 1,312.8 117 053.0 118 659.2
Medellin ................. 383 1,974.2 253 1,304.1 4 20.6 249 1,283.5 130 070.1 119 013.4
EL SALVADOR project ..... 017 2,050.2 531 1,711.8 11 35.5 520 1,070.3 313 1,009.0 207 607.3
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew ...... 990 2,417.0 724 1,767.6 01 148.9 603 1,618.7 369 900.9 204 717.8
MEXICO
Monterrey ................ 1,377 2,597.0 700 1.320.5 58 109.4 642 1,211.1 320 015.0 310 590.1
UNITED STATES
California project ..........570 1,274.0 443 990.2 19 42.5 424 947.7 104 366.6 200 581.1
Rates per 100,000 live births.
other perinatal conditions, that is, whether
immaturity was a consequence of other
FrG. 46. Immaturity as Underlying or Associated
Cause of Neonatal Mortality in 15 Projects.
causes or contributory to the fatal outcome.
Neonatal mortality with immaturity as 10 AM , i.
an underlying or an associated cause is
shown in Table 41 and Figure 46, the asso- uo paov u __.
ciated causes being divided into those in 1 Vitti.i
which immaturity was contributory and 0 'OP
those in which it was a consequence of o ma ,u
maternal or other conditions in pregnancy. "m"
The rates for immaturity as underlying IM
or associated cause ranged from 978.2 per CTITARMa
100,000 live births in Sherbrooke to 2,474.3 '"uim
in San Juan Province, a rate 2.5 times as
high. In all the Latin American projects the
smu ml.
0 1000 2000 3000 4000
rates were higher than in the Northern CUNcoRTYO~y MENIOUNC
MCOTRIUTOY
WITHOUTAINTION
American projects. Several factors such as
Of IMMTUITY
the frequency of low-birth-weight babies