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TABLE 15. Death Rates' Under 5 Years in Two Fia. 32. Mortality Under 5 Years of Age in 25
Age Groups in 25 Areas of 15 Projects.
Areas of 15 Projects.
DEATHS PER1,00D POPULATION
Area Under Under 1-4 0 10 20 30 ,o so
5cyars Ilyear Ucare
ARGENTINA
VlACI
Chaco Province
PAZ
Resistencia ............ 20.7 76.2 3.5 SIN SAIVANOI
Rural departments ..... 23.9 85.0 6.3
San Juan Province
SANJUANUIAt
CHACO RUIt
San Juan (city) ........ 12.9 60.7 1.5 SANJUANSUIIIIIA
Suburban departments. 21.9 87.0 2.0 N1SISINCIA
Rural departments... 24.0 94.5 4.0 FRANCA
BOLIVIA
koliNlly
La Paz........ ....... 26.0 73.0 11.9 cPAUL
Viacha ................ 48.1 123.5 21.7 CAIIAGINA
BRAZIL
NLLIN
Recife ................... 29.3 01.2 9.0 CHIL€ llEAA --
Ribeirflo Prdto
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Ribeirflo Prato (city)... 10.9 43.0 1.9 1.PR[IOCOMMUNIIII
Franca ............... . 19.4 71.5 4.0 SANJUANCIC I-
Communities .......... 13.0 50.8 2.4 N11ll110 Pito ICIIYI
"SloPaulo ............... 17.7 65.1 2.8 Hit. IN6ION
CANADA
St. AIDIEW RURAL
IN FRANCISCO
Sherbrooke .............. 4.1 18.3 0.8 CALIFOINIA SIUMAN
CHILE
SNIOOK
Santiago ................ 13.0 54.9 1.8
Comunas ................ 14.0 57.9 2.2
COLOMBIA
Cal .................... 6.1 54.6 5.0 Tile differences in mortality between
Cartagena .............. 14.6 47.8 5.8 urban and rural areas were small in Chaco
Medellin ................ 14.4 47.6 5.7
Province and in Jamaica. In Chaco, the
EL SALVADOR
San Salvador .......... 26.4 81.7 8.0 rates were high in the city of Resistencia
Rural rauni plos ....... 50.5 120.0 26.2
JAMAICA
as well as in the rural departments, and (as
Metropolitan Kingston.. 10.5 39.5 2.1 will be noted later) there was little differ-
St. Andrew, rural ...... 9.5 31.6 3.1
MEXICO
ence between the two in regard to health
Monterrey ............... 18.1 60.7 4.3
UNITED STATES facilities and environmental conditions.
San Francisco.......... 5.4 18.5 0.8 Rural St. Andrew had the smallest number
California, suburban .... 4.1 17.2 0.7 of deaths (only 149 under 5 years of age)
* Rates under I year per 1,000 live births: others per 1,000 and the number of thosc occurring in early
population.
life appears to be deficient, as judged by the
low rate of 3.4 per 1,000 live births in the
United States (5.4 and 4.1) and the project first day of life and the neonatal rate of
of Sherbrooke in Canada (4.1). 15.1. This deficiency may be due in part to
The rural municipios in El Salvador and lack of registration or perhaps to tile fact
Viacha in Bolivia had death rates of the that several deaths of rural St. Andrew
order of two times those in the nearby residents were included with those of Metcities.
Also in San Juan Province, mortality ropolitan Kingston. Thus for many tables,
in the rural and suburban departments was KingUAon and St. Andrew are treated as a
nearly double that in the city of San Juan. whole.
It is probable that in many areas of Latin In California the death rate of 4.1 for the
America death rates in rural sectors are at suburban counties was slightly lower than
least twice as high as those in cities. that of 5.4 for San Francisco-the reverse of