BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

322 Potterne of Mortality,in Childhood
TAn,. 189. Number of Rooms in Households of Infants' Dying in Neonatal and Postneonatal Periods
in 22 Areas of 14 Projects.
Neonatal period
Pocteeonatal pWWid
Area
Number Per cent Number Percont
Total -- Total
bouatu 4 ,ui 4 4
.1 2 2 and and 1 2 3 a nd 1 2 3 and
over over over oY
Total .................. 9,297 2,804 2,424 1,619 2,450 30.2 26.1 17.4 26.4 12,11 4.720 3,342 1,865 2,182 39.0 27.6 15.4 18.0
AROENTINA
Cheoo Province
Reeditencla ........... 298 111 102 41 41 37.2 35.2 13.8 13.8 399 176 151 53 19 44.1 37.8 13.3 4.8
Rural departments.... 23W 80 39 18 41.2 34.3 16.7 7.7 403 I8N 146 43 28 46.2 36.2 10.7 6.1
Sin Juan Province
Ban Juan (city)...... 147 11 33 31 67 10.9 22.4 21.1 45.6 304 20 22 16 46 19.2 21.2 15.4 44.2
Suburban departmenta 311 50 68 83 110 16.1 21.9 26.7 35.4 322 71 94 70 87 22.0 29.2 231.7 27.0
Rural departments .... 343 a5 so 106 93 18.0 25.9 30.9 27.1 502 77 130 10 135 15.3 25.9 31.9 26.9
rDOLIVIA
TAPS ............... 608 301 150 8.5 92 49.5 24.7 10.7 15.1 991 673 221 92 103 57.8 22.3 9.3 10.6
Vlache ............... 32 17 11 2 5 48.6 31.4 A.7 14.3 51 26 15 A 7 49.1 28.3 9.4 13.2
BRAZIL,
Kife .................. 88 58 1563 200 471 6.0 17.6 22.6 53.2 1,458 147 337 351 623 10.1 23.1 24.1 42.7
Ribeirao Preto
RiberioPPreto (city)... 190 17 43 48 91 8.5 21.6 24.1 45.7 159 29 50 45 35 18.2 31.4 28.3 22.0
Franc ............... 159 i3 38 51 57 9.4 22.6 32.1 33.8 140 17 41 42 40 12.1 29.3 30.0 28.6
Communltlen ......... 03 9 3s 15 54 9.7 18.3 18.1 58.1 82 7 23 20 32 8.5 28.0 24.4 39.0
SUnPaulo .............. 1,672 223 647 428 321 15.3 39.9 25.6 19.2 1,518 310 n59 301 198 23.7 43.4 19.8 13.0
CANADA
Sherbrooke ............. 200 2 a 20 172 1.0 3.0 10.0 88.0 72 1 3 7 (13 1.4 1.4 9.7 87.5
CIIILE
Santiago ............. 569 113 131 73 252 19.9 23.0 12.8 44.3 859 294 211 131 253 30.7 24.6 15.3 29.5
Comunas ............. 50 14 22 14 6 25.0 39.3 25.0 10.7 330 27 38 20 25 24.5 34.5 18.2 22.7
COLOMIIIA
Cali ................... 361 129 53 45 134 35.7 14.7 12.5 37.1 424 180 104 at 79 42.5 24.5 14.4 18.6
Cartagena .............. 203 24 65 38 48 24.6 32.0 18.7 22.7 353 136 135 50 32 38.5 38.2 14.2 9.1
Medellin ............... 200 40 48 37 135 15.4 18.5 14.2 51.9 388 02 68 79 149 23.7 17.5 20.4 38.4
El. SALVADOR
San Salvador .......... 680 410 48 40 62 75.0 10.0 5.9 9.1 1,321 1,15 93 55 60 84.4 6.9 4.2 4.5
Rural muffcipioa ...... 1 34 165 14 4 1 89.7 7.' 2.2 0.6 430 382 34 33 I 88.8 7.9 2.8 0.7
JAMAICA
Kinceton-St, Andrew 877 586 100 .A 75 66.8 18.2 8.4 8.6 242 319 93 45 35 68.8 17.2 8.3 6.5
MEXICO
Monterrey .............. 924 190 404 3& 147 20.0 43.7 10.8 15.9 1.48W 471 678 208 128 31.7 45.7 14.0 8.6
* In famllire In whirh [tome Interviews were conducted and information was provided.
four or more rooms. At the other extreme, in
San Salvador and rural municipios of El
Salvador 75.0 and 89.7 per cent of these
families lived in one room. In general families
of infants dying in the neonatal period
appeared to have homes with more rooms
than those of infants dying in the postneonatal
period. Since the data were collected
according to standard definitions, there ap-
pear to be distinct differences between the
two groups of families with respect to housing,
even in areas where mortality was ex­
eessive, as in Recife and San Salvador.
Just as number of rooms in household
varied widely, number of persons per room
showed great variation in these areas (Table
190). For families of infants dying in the
postneonatal period, the areas with the