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TABLE 133. Mortality, from Deficiency Anemias and Other Diseases of Blood and Blood-Forming
Organs as Underlying or Associated Causes of Death in Children Under 5 Years of Age in 15 Projects.
Deficiency
(280,281)
anemnia
Other diseases of blood and
blood-forming organs
(282-289)
Project Underlying Associated Underlying I Associated
No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate
Total ........................... 3 0.1 158 7.5 55 2.6 636 30.3
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ................ - - 5 6.5 1 1.3 10 13.0
San Juan Province ............. - - 22 21.1 3 2.0 55 52.7
BOLIVIA project ................ - - 5 3.2 4 2.5 12 7.6
BRAZIL
Recife ........................ - - 27 21.8 9 7.3 94 75.)
Ribeir.o Preto ................. 1 1.2 3 3.6 2 2.4 17 20.0
Sio Paulo ..................... - - 10 4.1 6 2.5 148 60.7
CANADA
Sherbrooke .................... - - 1 1.1 - - 3 3.3
CHILE project .................. - - 15 7.2 - - 15 7.2
COLOMBIA
Cali .......................... - - 5 4.0 3 3.0 17 16.8
Cartagena ..................... 1 1.2 13 15.1 3 3.5 33 38.4
Medellfn ...................... - - 9 9.6 2 2.1 11 11.8
EL SALVADOR project .......... - - 1 0.8 3 2.4 105 83.8
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew ........... 1 0.5 22 12.0 14 7.6 44 24.0
MEXICO
Monterrey ...................- - 20 9.2 2 0.9 68 31.2
UNITED STATES
California project .............. - 3 1.5 4 2.0
Rates per 100,000 population.
DISEASES OF NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SENSE ORGANS
This broad group of causes is composed of signed in 1,428 deaths, with rates of from
inflammatory diseases of the central nervous 14.7 in the California project to 127.5 in
system a,i their late effects; hereditary and Recife.
familial diseases of nervous system; cere- As can be seen in Table 134 and Figure
bral infantile paralysis; epilepsy; and other 111, this group of diseases produce their
diseases of nervous system and sense organs. most serious impact during the first year of
In the 15 projects these conditions were as- life. The death rates as underlying causes in
signed as underlying causes in 965 deaths that age period varied from 5.9 per 100,000
of children under 5 years of age, with rates live births in Sherbrooke to 304.3 in Siio
ranging from 7.7 per 100,000 population in Paulo, while those for children aged 1-4
Sherbrooke to 89.0 in Sio Paulo (Table years ranged from 6.2 in California to 40.7
134). As associated causes they were as- in Recife. Among infants the rates for these