TABLE 26.

TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY 1961, 1967 AND 1973 TO 1977

Total Deaths

Year

from

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Death Rate per 100,000 population

Tuberculosim Deathe as

percentage of total registered deatha

TABLE 27

TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1961, 1967 AND 1973 TO 1977

Fercentage"

of newborns

Year

receiving

B.C.G.

Average Age

at death

from

Tuberculosis

Percentage of Tuberculosis deaths below 5 years

Percentage of Tuberculosis deaths under 1 year

Infantile

Mortality from Tuberculosis (per 1,000

live birthe)

1961

77.77

11.48

2.62

0.46

1961

1,907

60.2

10.2

43

1967

95.38

2.01

0.33

0.07

1967

1,493

40.1

7.6

54.5

1973

94.38

0.35

0.07

0.01

1973

1.154

27.4

5.4

BB

58

A

1974

95.83

0.82

0.21

0.02

1974

974

22.5

58.5

1975

646

1975

14.7

97.62

1.39

051

0.03

3.0

58.5

1976

568

12.8

22.4

59.5

1976

97.87

0.70

1977

532

11.8

2.3

61

1977

98.01

0.38

# Rates for the years 1973 to 1977, based on

revised population estimates after 1976 By-census

* Percentage of newborns based on registered birth figures in 1961 and based on known birth figures since 1967

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