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TABLE 188. Average Size of Families of Infants, Dying in Neonatal and Postneonatal Periods in 22
Areas of 14 Projects.
Neonatal period
Poastneonatal period
Area No. of Average No. of I Average
families members families members
Total ............................... 9,482 4.9 12,343 5.3
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province
Resistencia ...................... 304 5.1 409 5.3
Rural departments ............... 235 5.3 410 5.4
San Juan Province
San Juan (cit.) .................. 149 5.1 107 4.0
Suburban departments ............ 314 5.5 323 5.5
Rural depar rients ............... 346 5.5 509 5.9
BOLIVIA
La Paz ... ..................... 634 3.7 1,045 3.7
Viacha .......................... 38 3.7 55 3.5
BRAZIL
Recife ............................ 803 5.6 1,463 5.9
RibeirSo Preto
RibeirSo Preto (city) ............. 202 5.0 160 5.1
Franca ......................... 162 4.0 143 5.0
Communities .................... 94 5.2 83 5.7
Sdo Paulo ......................... 1,703 4.0 1,524 4.4
CANADA
Sherbrooke ........................ 203 3.6 73 4.1
CHILE
Santiago ........................ 583 4.5 887 4.8
Colnunas ........................ 57 5.5 112 5.6
COLOMBIA
Cali .............................. 382 4.6 443 4.8
Cartagena ......................... 208 6.3 355 0.6
Medellin .......................... 263 6.0 396 6.6
EL SALVADOR
San Salvador .................... 689 5.0 1,338 5.4
Rural municipios................. 185 6.0 440 6.2
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew ............... 882 4.2 544 4.7
MEXICO
Monterrey ......................... 956 0.0 1,524 6.1
In families in which home interviews were conducted and information was provided.
households of deceased infants in the two housing was less favorable for the second
age groups, for 22 areas of 14 projects. For group than for the first (roughly representthese
areas combined, 30.2 per cent of fain- ing the general population) and also that
ilies in the neonatal group lived in one- the differences in size of dwellings in these
room households, 26.1 per cent in two-room, widely separated areas were great. In Sher­
17.4 per cent in three-room, and 26.4 per brooke 86.0 and 87.5 per cent of households
cent in houses with at least four rooms. The in these two groups, respectively, had at
corresponding percentages for families in the least four rooms. In Recife, Ribeirflo Prato
postneonatal group were 39.0, 27.6, 15.4, communities, and Medellin over 50 per cent
and 18.0. The data showed, therefore, that of households in the neonatal group had