BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

238 Patternh of Mortalityin Childhood
STAI;z 144. Mortality' from Four Types of External Causes in Children Under 5 Years of Age and
Under One Year in 15 Projects.
Under 5 years
Under I year
Project Falls
(880-
Obstruction,
suffocation
lunicide
(0960-
Rest of
E800-
Falls
(E880-
Obstruction,
suffocation
Homicide
(E96O-
Rest of
ES00­
£887) (El 1-E913) E969) E989 E887) (E9l1-E913) E969) E989
No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate
Total ................... 70 3.3 124 5.9 30 1.7 124 5.9 27 5.7 09 20.9 22 4.6 57 12.0
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province . - 5 6.5 7 9.1 5 0.5 - - 5 28.4 5 28.4 4 22.7
San Juan Province ...... 4.8 7 6.7 - - 4 3.8 3 12.8 4 17.1 - - 3 12.8
BOLIVIA project ......... 7 4.4 4 2.5 4 2.5 16 10.1 - - 4 10.6 2 5.3 6 16.0
BRAZIL
Recife ................ I1 8.0 6 4.8 - - 10 8.1 6 19.7 3 . - - 2 6.6
Ribeirao Prato .......... 1 1.2 4 4.8 1 1.2 3 3.6 - - 4 21.9 1 5.5 - -
8ao Paulo ............. 5 2.1 11 4.5 3 1.2 14 5.7 2 3.4 10 17.2 2 3.4 10 17.2
CANADA
Sherbrooke ............ 2 2.2 4 4.4 2 2.2 3 3.3 - - 3 17.7 1 5.0 1 5.9
CHILE project ........... 7 3.4 26 12.5 4 1.9 13 6.3 2 4.6 22 50.5 3 6.9 7 16.1
COLOMBIA
Call .................. 3 3.0 4 4.0 1 1.0 5 4.9 1 4.7 4 19.0 1 4.7 1 4.7
Cartagena ............. 6 7.0 4 4.7 - - 6 7.0 2 11.2 3 16.8 - - 4 22.3
Medellin .............. 4 4.3 6 8.4 2 2.1 7 7.5 1 5.2 5 25.8 - - 1 5.2
EL SALVADOR project. 5 4.0 6 4.8 2 1.6 7 5.6 3 9.7 1 3.2 2 6.4 3 9.7
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew.. 5 2.7 13 7.1 2 1.1 11 6.0 2 4.9 13 31.7 1 2.4 6 14.6
MEXICO
Monterrey ............. 4 1.8 13 6.0 1 0.5 12 5.5 3 5.7 10 18.9 1 1.9 6 11.3
UNITED STATES
California project ...... 2.5 11 5.4 7 3.4 8 3.9 2 4.5 8 17.9 3 6.7 3 6.7
aRates under 1year of age per 100,000 live births; others per 100,000 population.
found in each project indicates the advisa­
bility of undertaking local studies of these
problems to provide bases for preventive
programs.
deaths were of infants and several occurred
soon after birth (infanticide because a child
was not wanted),
The variety of external causes of death
SUDDEN DEATH
Of the 35,095 deaths in the Investigation, of the 280 deaths being in that age group.
280 were classed as sudden death" (category Table 145 gives the numbers of deaths by
795). These occurred most frequently in age and the rates in infancy per 100,000
infants aged 28 days to 5 months, 197 out live births. Only 12 of the deaths were in
aIn the Investigation sudden death was defined as children from 1-4 years old.
the death of a child who was believed to be in good Four projects had high mortality in inhealth
and without evidence of a specific disease or external
cause in the clinical history or autopsy. fancy, namely, San Juan Province, Chile,