TABLE 26
TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY 1961, 1969 AND 1975 TO 1979
Total Deaths
from
Tear
Tuberculosis Death Rate per 100,000 population/
Tuberculosia
Tuberculosis Deaths as percentage of total registered deaths
TABLE 27
TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1961, 1969 AND 1975 TO 1979
Average Age
at death
Fercentage*
of newborns
Fercentage of Tuberculosis
from
Year
receiving
Tuberculosis
B.C.G.
deaths below 5 years
Percentage of Tuberculosis deaths under
1
year
Infantile Mortality from Tuberculosis (per 1,000
live births)
1961
1,907
60.2
10.2
43
1961
77.77
11.48
2.62
0.46
1969
1.470
58.0
7.8
56
1969
91.16
0.95
0.27
0.05
1975
646
14.7
3.0
50.5
1975
97.62
1.39
0.31
0.03
1976
568
12.8
2.4
59.5
1976
97.87
0.70
1977
532
11.8
2.3
61
1977
98.01
0.38
1978
420
9.1
1.8
61
1978
98.35
0.48
0.24
0.01
1979
523
10.7
2,0
61
1979
98.32
0.96
0.19
0.01
# Rates for the years 1975 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 1968