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TABLE 71. Number of Deaths of Children Under 5 Years of Age from Specific Infective and Parasitic
Diseases as Underlying Causes in 15 Projects.
Other
Mo Otrepo- - M-iIndOth In- Other , Tono- Infective and +
B ninlgo- Polio.- Smell- Chicken. ;feetOusliable. Mowm, dl Chtle, mPlUe- paeutl
(040 (* xn) (0711 (072r lcse ies
throat etlon 02 I (053- (088) (130) (rest o
(036) (070) 070)
000
Total.................... 3 30 31 4 55 44 4 9 62 13 18 37
AROENTINA
Chco Provlnce .........-
San Juan Province ......
BOLIVIA project .........
-
-
BRAZIL
Recife ................ -
Rlbelro Preto .........
I
SAO Paulo ............. I
CANADA
Sherbrooke............ -
CHILE project ........... -
-
I
1
-
2
2
-
-
-
2
5
2
I
.
I
-
-
-
-
3
I
.
-
5
6
6
5
1
11
.
2
-
3
3
4
2
7
.
4
-
1
-
I
-
-
.
-
-
I
-
I
10
8
2 7
- 3
1 2
COLOMBIA
Call ................... - - 4 - I 3 2 - 2 - I I
Cartagena ............. - 2 a -
- - -
-
Medelin ............... . 1 2 - 3 4 -
2 1 --
I
EL SALVADOR project... - I - -
3 4 - 3 1 - 1 4
JAMAICA
Kilnpton-St. Andrew....
MEXICO
Monterrey .............
UNITED STATES
Califomia project.......
- - ! 4 - - I
- - 5 - 12 8
3 - - 3
-
9 4 - - I
- I
Rat of causesin OO-136 not given in detail in Tables TOand 71.
.
-
.
12
1
7
-
-
3
-
.
2
I
-
1
-
3
8
.
I
1
10
3
I
5
.
a
As can be seen in Figure 69, mortality diseases are presented in Table 70 for the
from infectious diseases was usually much 25 areas in the 15 projects. In addition,
higher in rural than in urban areas; for example,
the rate in the rural departments of diseases (last column of Table 70) causing
data for the rest of the group of infectious
San Juan Province (929.5) was over two only a few deaths are provided in Table 71.
and a half times greater than that in the The two major infectious diseases as
city of San Juan (356.6). The reverse was underlying causes of death in the Latin
found in the California project, where the American areas were diarrheal disease and
rate, though very low, was higher in San measles (Figure 69). In only three areas
Francisco than in the suburban counties. were the death rates from measles relatively
The many factors involved in these varia- unimportant (Kingston-St. Andrew, Santions
in the Latin American projects will be tiago, and comunas of Chile). Detailed data
clarified in later chapters.
on these important causes are presented
The numbers of deaths from 13 infectious below.
DIARRHEAL DISEASE
Diarrheal disease, category 009 of the constitutes the maj( r underlying cause of
International Classification of Diseases, death for 10,052 of the 35,095 deaths of