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ChapterVl. Neonatal Mortality
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TABLE. 43. Neonatal Mortality" from Specific Maternal Conditions as Underlying Causes and with
Immaturity as Associated Cause (Consequence) in 15 Projects.
Underlying cause
Conditions unrelated to pregnancy
(700-761)
Associated
cause
Project Total (760-761) Toxemia Maternal IImmaturity
(760-763) (762) infection as
svh is- (3) consetquece
Total ilis bets Other (77)
(761.0) (761.1) (761.5)
No. Rate No. Rate No. No. No. No. No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate
Total ................... 827 174.5 360 75.9 27 44 100 189 334 70.5 133 28.1 681 143.7
ARGENTINA
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Chaco Province ......... 25 142.0 13 73.9 1 - 4 8 11 62.5 I 5.7 20 113.6
San Juan Province ..... 40 171.2 22 94.2 1 2 10 9 16 68.5 2 8.6 34 145.5
BOLIVIA project ........ 55 146.2 27 71.8 4 1 16 6 28 74.4 - 45 119.6
BRAZIL
Recife ................. 28 92.1 16 52.6 1 1 9 5 9 29.6 3 9.9 22 72.4
Ribeirflo Prfto ......... 20 109.6 10 54.8 I - - 0 0 49.3 1 5.5 18 98.7
Sao Paulo ............. 106 182.3 42 72.2 2 4 11 25 53 1.1 11 18.9 85 146.1
CANADA
Sherbrooke ............ 20 117.0 11 64.8 - 3 6 2 5 29.5 4 23.6 16 94.3
CHILE project ........... 88 201.9 28 64.2 I 4 5 18 23 52.8 37 84.9 76 174.4
COLOMBIA
Cali ................... 50 237.0 25 118.5 2 2 8 13 19 900 6 28.4 41 194.3
Cartagena............. 32 178.8 11 61.5 - 1 2 8 19 106.1 2 11.2 26 145.3
Medellin ............... 37 190.7 13 67.0 1 - 4 8 13 67.0 II 56.7 30 154.6
EL SALVADOR project.. 84 270.8 43 138.6 7 - 3 33 21 67.7 20 64.5 74 238.6
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew.. 110 268.6 35 85.4 4 5 15 11 64 156.2 II 26.9 98 239.3
MEXICO
Monterrey............. 81 152.8 39 73.6 2 15 6 16 35 66.0 7 13.2 I 50 04.3
UNITED STATES
California project ....... 51 114.0 25 55.9 6 1 18 9 20.1 17 38.0 46 102.8
- Rates per 100,000 live births.
product although their occurrence is unre- bined. Maternal syphilis was found in all
lated to the state of pregnancy. Included in but one of the Latin American projects and
this group are chronic cardiovascular and it was an underlying cause in 27 deaths. It
renal diseases, maternal diabetes, injury should be noted, however, that mortality
and specific infections (syphilis, rubella, due to syphilis was not included among the
influenza, toxoplasmosis) occurring during maternal conditions when the disease was
pregnancy, and any other abnormality found in the infant; tIe assignment in those
affecting the health of the mother and/or cases was made to the specific infection
fetus. The death rates for this group of and although the mother may have had tile
maternal conditions (Table 43 and Figure disease a single code was used. 1i 19 deaths
48) varied from 52.6 per 100,000 live births maternal syphilis was found as an assoin
Recife to 138.6 in El Salvador.
ciated cause, increasing to 46 the number
Certain specific maternal conditions as of neonatal deaths in which this maternal
underlying or associated causes of death are infection was a cause.
given in Table 44 for the 15 projects corn- One-third of the 44 neonatal deaths in