著者

新福 祐子

出版者

日本民族衛生学会

雑誌

民族衛生 (ISSN:03689395)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.4, pp.285-293, 1969

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In this report, the statistics of infant deaths are analysed and some hygienic subjects and discussed. The results obtained are as follows: 1) After the War, the peak birth rate was reached in the year 1948 with 30-40 births per 1, 000 population. In Eigenji-cho and Shigaraki-chô the rate of birth has more or less been stabilized at 12 by 1957, while in the other districts the rate still shows the tendency to a gentle decline. 2) The infant death rate, which has been calculated since 1947, decreased from 100 per 1, 000 in 1947 to 20 per 1, 000 in 1965, the last year in these data. In Kutsuki-mura this rate is slightly higher. 3) The ratio of infant deaths to the population has remarkably decreased since 1955, but it is still high in Kutsuki-mura. 4) In these districts, over 85 per cent of infant deaths were caused by pneumonia, gastroenteritis and deseases of early infancy. This percentage is somewhat higher than average. 5) The seasonal variation of infant mortality has also been observed. In Eigenji-chô and Shigaraki-chô, there is a greater concentration of deaths in the months of January, February and March. In Kutsuki-mura and Yogo-mura this is the case with the months of March and April. 6) On the months-of-age distribution of infant deaths, the percentage of neonatal deaths is always maximum and becomes larger and larger. 7) The ratio of neonatal deaths to the other infant deaths and the ratio of infant deaths to the deaths of age-group 1-4 years show that the improvement of hygiene and health services has a great influence on infants, but in Kutsuki-mura, utmost efforts must be made to decrease infant deaths.