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Chapter IX. Nutritional Deficiency 175
specified group (269), for which the overall
rate was 431.9 per 100,000 population.
With regard to infant mortality (under
one year) for the 13 projects (Figure 87),
nutritional marasmus and unspecified nutritional
deficiency states accounted for most
of these deaths. Only in the two projects
of Recife and Cartagena were the rates for
protein malnutrition in this age group relatively
high-259.9 and 324.0 per 100,000
live births, resl)ectively.
The rates for children aged one year and
2-4 years (Figure 88) were lower. In five
projects (El Salvador, Recife, Cartagena,
Cali, and Medellin) protein malnutrition
mortality was particularly high in the second
year of life, with the rates ranging
from 220.4 to 616.3 per 100,000 population.
In Cartagena more than half the nutritionail
deficiency deaths in one-year-olds were due
to this type. The clinical information for
this latter city was of unusually good quality
and this fact may account partially for
the more frequent assignment to specific
types there.
Flo. 87. Mortality in Infancy from Specific
Types of Nutritional Deficiency in 13 Projects.
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the first 5 years. These are reference tables
designed to provide full information on the
local situation in each project.
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and 2-4 Years of Age in 13 Projects.
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