BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

*56 Patterniof Mortality in Childhood
"T4,WLN 13. Number of Infants Dying in Neonatal Period Bom in Hospitals, and of Multiple Birth, by
Birth Weight, in 13 Cities and Two Projects.
Multiple Multiple Multip!a Multiple Multiple
Neo- birts Neo- births Neo- births Neo- births Neo- births
natal natal natal natal natal
Weight in grams deaths deaths deaths deaths - - deaths
No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %
ARGENTINA
BRAZIL
San Juan
Realstencia Province
BOLIVIA
La Paz
Recife
Ribeirlo Preto
(city)
Total deaths ...... 209 39 14.5 789 127 10.1 473 05 13.7 808 130 15.0 213 34 16.0
Weightstated .... 242 38 15.7 773 126 16.3
433 58 13.4 566 98 17.3 198 30 15.2
1000 grams or less.. 25 9 30.0 60 14 23.3 50 10 20.0 62 10 30.6 21 5 23.8
1100-1500 ......... 42 18 42.9 149 34 22.8 75 15 20.0 122 33 27.0 43 11 25.6
I600-2000 ........ 51 7 13.7 185 45 24.3 80 20 25.0 125 23 18.4 43 10 23.3
2100-2500 ........ 27 2 7.4 111 26 23.4 92 0 9.8 00 15 10.7 34 4 11.8
2500 or less ....... 145 30 24.8 505 119 23.0 297 54 18.2 399 00 22.6
2501-3000 ........ 34 2 5.9 100 7 7.0 80 3 3.8 74 7 9.5 30
3100-3500 ......... 39 - 80 - 31 1 3.2 64 1 1.0 10
600 and over .... 24 - - 88 - 25 - - 29 - - 8
Total deaths ..... 1,702 210 11.0 220
CANADA
CHILE
BRAZIL
SAo Paulo Shserbrooke Santiago
Call
COLOMBIA
COLOMBIA
141 30 21.3
Cartagena
25 11.1 1,037 102 9.8 310 34 11.0 291 36 12.4
Weightstated .... 1,632 203 12.4 220 25 11.4 1,012 98 9.7 204 30 11.4
278 35 12.6
1000 grams or less . 193 47 24.4 60 12 18.2 127 22 17.3 38 8 21.1 40 10 25.0
1100-1500 ........ 208 53 25.5 30 4 11.1 215 40 18.0 55 10 18.2 60 9 15.0
1600-2000 ........ 324 62 19.1 35 5 14.3 221 29 13.1 59 8 13.6 59 11 18.6
2100-2500 ........ 209 31 11.5 25 4 10.0 169 5 3.0 31 4 12.0 41 2 4.9
2500 or less ....... 094 193 19.4 162 25 15.4 732 90 13.1 183 30 10.4 200 32 10.0
2501-3000 ........ 262 8 3.1 30 - - 145 2 1.4 37 - - 28 2 7.1
3100-3500 ........ 224 2 0.9 17 - - 80 ­ - 26 - - 30 1 3.3
3600 and over .... 152 - - 11 - - 55 - ­ 18 - - 20 - -
COI.OMBIA EL SALVADOR JAMAICA MEXICO UNITED STATES
Medellin San Salvador Met. Kingston Monterrey California project
Total deaths ...... 333 40 14.7 597 52 8.7 830 123 14.7 1,171 129 11.0 566 74 13.1
Weightstated ..... 315 48 15.2 571 49 8.0 750 114 15.1 909 93 10.2 503 74 13.1
1000 grams or less. . 49 13 26.5 81 13 10.0 142 30 25.4 73 20 27.4 202 41 20.3
1100-1500 ........ 76 19 25.0 117 12 10.3 212 38 17.9 123 30 24.4 110 21 19.1
1000-2000 ........ 71 12 16.9 120 12 9.5 174 28 10.1 151 25 16.0 08 5 7.4
2100-2500 ........ 36 3 8.3 88 7 8.0 05 8 12.3 143 10 7.0 57 5 8.8
2500 or less ....... 232 47 20.3 412 44 10.7 693 110 18.5 4D0 85 17.3 437 72 16.5
2501-3000 ........ 42 1 2.4 94 5 5.3 48 4 8.3 156 7 4.5 47 i 2.1
3100-3500 ........ 27 - - 45 - - 74 - ­ 142 1 0.7 47 1 2.1
3600 and over ..... 14 - - 20 - - 41 - - 121 - - 32 - ­
a Weights rounded to hundreds of grams except 2501-2549 whir.h are in the weight group 2501-3000 grams.
tiple pregnancies (Table 12) and thus the the multiple births in hospitals and two
neonatal death rate of 85.9 per 1,000 live occurring at home were of low birth weight
births is much higher than that for single (2,500 grams or less). The neonatal death
births (11.3) (Table 14). Actually 72 of rate in plural births of low weight--156.1