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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