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Fio. 84. Mortality from Nutritional Deficiency by Month of Age for First 12 Months of
Life in Six Projects.
500 SAN JUAN MONTERREY SAO PAULO EI|IIEAO PIGTO CHILE PROJECT KINGSTON.
PROVINCE
ST. ANDREW
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300 - RURAL
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200
d
FRANCA
CITY
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0 3 6 9 0 3 6 9 0 3 6 9 0 3 6 9 0 3 6 9 12
MONTH OF AGE
Fio. 85. Mortality from Nutritional Deficiency young infants. In San Juan Province, where
by Month of Age for First 24 Months of Life in
Six Projects.
the rural rates were much higher than those
soo
in the city, the highest rates in both areas
RECIFE CHACO were in the first six months of life. In the
400-PROVINCE
Ribeirilo Prcto project, the rates were much
300 higher in the interior city of Franca than
in the city of Ribeirdio Prto, and in both
200 the problem affected principally early in­
100 fancy. Although a similar pattern of high
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mortality in early life was seen in tile
BOLIVIA MEDELLIN Chilean project, the rates were much lower.
00 PROJECT In tile six projects shown in Figure 85
300 there appeared to be two different patterns.
0
d 200%
,Recife and Chaco Province had exceedingly
high rates in early infancy and mortality
1ZI
continued to be relatively high in the second
year of life; tile rates per 100,000 live
oI CARTAGENA
IbirthsCALl reached 480.3 for infants 2 months
400 of age in Recife and 477.3 for those aged 3
months in Chaco. On the other hand, in
300 Bolivia, Medellin, Cartagena, and Cali mor­
200 tality did not appear to he concentrated in
10 .iearly infancy, though rates were between
100 and 200 per 100,000 live births for most
2
06 ,Is 6 12 Is of the months of infancy. These rates be­
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MONTHOf AGE
caie lower at time end of the first year of
F.e per 100,.000 p.p.,.,lo.. life, but deaths from nutritional deficiency