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TAntz 48. Neonatal Deaths from Certain Complications of Pregnancy and Childbirth as Underlying
Causes by Birth Weight in 15 Projects.
No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %
Birth weight ARGEN- ARGENin
granms TINA TINA BOL.IVIA BRAZIL RIo BRAZIlo CANADA CIEc
Chaco San Juan project Recife Ribeirao Sao Paulo Sherbrooke project
Province Province
Prto
Total ................ 77 100.0 140 100.1 02 100.1 128 99.9 80 100.0 250 100.0 44 100.1 228 99.9
1000 or lea ........... 14 23.3 30 22.1 10 28.4 22 28.0 17 24.6 84 30.7 30 68.2 59
1100-1500 ............ 24 40.0 .18 35.3 20 38.8 25 32.9 24 34.8 60 20.2 5 11.4 81
1600-2000 ............ 10 20.7 39 28.7 13 10.4 20 20.3 20 29.0 57 24.0 8 18.2 57
2100-2500 ............ 5 8.3 11 8.1 5 7.5 0 7.9 6 8.7 20 8.7 1 2.3 10
2501 and over ......... I 1.7 8 5.9 4 0.0 3 3.9 2 2.0 8 3.5 - - 6
Unknown ............ 17 4 25 52 11 21 9
UNITEI)
MEXICo
Monterrey
Co-
I.OMIIIA
Call
CO-
I.OMI A
Cartagena
CO-
I.OMBIA
Medellin
El. SAI.-
VADOR
project
JAMAICA
Kingston-
St. Andrew
STATIS
California
project
26.9
37.0
20.0
7.3
2.7
Total ................ 70 100.0 61 100.1 75 100.0 117 100.0 18 119.9 208 99.9 127 100.0
1000 or less ........... 17 31.5 20 30.4 21 29.2 37 37.0 58 32.0 32 21.3 73 58.4
1100-1500 ............ 17 31.5 18 32.7 20 36.1 20 26.0 72 40.4 50 33.3 31 24.8
1600-2000 ............ 12 22.2 10 18.2 15 20.8 23 23.0 34 19.1 30 20.0 13 10.4
2100-2500............ 4 7.4 4 7.3 6 8.3 8 8.0 4 2.2 18 12.0 5 4.0
2501 and over......... 4 7.4 3 5.5 .I 5.0 6 6.0 10 5.6 20 13.3 3 2.4
Unknown ............ 22 0 3 17 1 58 2
a Percentage distribution based on deaths with weights known.
b Hounded to hundreds of grans except for 2501-2,540, included in 2501 grains and over.
NEONATAL MORTALITY FROM CONDITIONS OF
PLACENTA AND CORD (770, 771)
Certain conditions of the placenta and centa and membranes (rest of 770) were
umbilical cord were the underlying causes found much less frequently, as can be seen
of 801 deaths and were assigned as asso- in Table 50 and Figure 50.
ciated causes in 265 deaths, as is shown in Neonatal death rates from placenta prethe
summary Table 49. via as underlying cause ranged from 145.3
per 100,000 live births in Cartagena to 16.4
Conditions of Placenta (770)
in Ribeirfio Prto. Only 17 neonatal deaths
were found in which this condition acted as
These include principally placenta previa associated cause. Among the causes of ante­
(770.0) and premature separation (770.1), partumi hemorrhage, placenta previa is
both responsible for serious complications usually the less common (Butler and Albersuch
as antepartum and intrapartum man, 1969). However, since it is also the
hemorrhage, fetal distress, and premature one in which the serious complications (inare
delivery. Other abnormalities of the pla- eluding fetal and neonatal death) more