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TABLE 203. Deaths Assigned to Congenital Anomalies as Underlying Causes Based on Death Certificates
and on Final Assignments, with Ratios,* in Children Under 5 Years of Age in 14 Projects.
Prjetat
Death@
Ratio
Final
Deaths
i nt
Ratio
Deaths
itft,
Deaths
Ratio __ -1
Ratio
Deaths
Digestive
anomalies
Other
Congenital an mtem Nervous Ifeart, circulatory
eyotem eyotem
system1 am ail70-59
anomalies
(748. 747) (49N731) (rt of 740-759)
(740-759) (74-31
Ratio
1,378 1,590 1.15 272 380 1.40 648 010 0.94
Totsi,.................
191 327 1.71 287 273 1.02
ARGENTINA
Cho Provine ........
Ban Juan Province .....
BOLIVIA BRAZIL, project ........
42
95
34
0
93
37
1.19
0.98
1.00
Ratio of deaths on final esignment to those auined froin death certificates.
withinformation 1vailatle iro, death certificates and from other sources.
Includes only deaths
N Rationot cnputed for lemthsn 10dethi. by earlhemigomnt.
8
18
2
9
22
a
1.22
#
Rcife ................ . 1 105 1.77 14 31 2.21 3A 41 1.17 7 23 3.29 5 13 2.0
RilbeirlioPrfto ....... a8 76 1.12 0 12 1.3t.1 27 28 1.04 1 21 1.31 to 15 0.94
8ito Paulo ........... 222 237 1.07 41 8 1.41 123 111 0.100 23 44 1.01 35 24 0.119
CANADA
Sherbrooke ........... 0 10 1.12 30 33 1.10 s0 32 1.07 0 9 # 14 io 1.14
CIILE project .......... I28 174 1.12 28 3 1.44 74 62 0.84 24 34 1.42 32 42 1.31
COIOMIBIA
Call.................. 65 01 0.94 7 12 1.71 39 31 0.85 11 14 1.27 8 2 #
Cartaena............ 46 7 1.24 7 0 # 24 20 0.83 10 14 1.40 5 14 2.90
Medellin ............ 0 80 1.33 a It 1.83 32 28 0.8 10 21 2.10 12 20 1.07
JAMAICA
Kinaton-St. Andrew.. I1 140 1.26 17 24 1.41 41 So1 I.37 10 20 1.62 37 34 0.92
MEXICO
Monterrey .............181 210 1.19 51 70 1.41 74 73 0.09 20 44 1.52 25 23 0.92
UNITED STATEq
California project .... 8155 8 1.08 32 39 1.2. Go 05 0.98 10 15 1.60 47 4, 1.02
22
48
1
18
32
11
0.82
0.70
0.73
3
13
13
11
31
19
3.67
2.38
1.46
9
is
4
12
8
2
1.33
0.44
#
OTHER CAUSES
Five groups of causes and one specific For the deaths certified as due to illcategory
are given in Table 204 to show defined conditions, specific underlying
the changes on final assignment. In three causes could usually be determined on the
of these groups-diseases of respiratory basis of additional evidence obtained. For
system, other defined diseases, and symp- all but 14 per cent of the 851 deaths in these
toms and ill-defined conditions-there were categories, a specific cause was assigned.
large reductions. Whereas 5,846 deaths were In Chaco Province, Sdo Paulo, and Monattributed
to respiratory diseases on death terrey, the 142, 149 and 171 deaths attrib­
certificates, only 4,546 or 78 per cent were uted to these conditions on death certificates
so assigned on the basis of clinical and other were reduced to 25, 11 and 9, respectively,
information available. In many of these the on final assignment.
respiratory disease was the terminal event. Deaths from the "sudden death syn­