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Infant Deaths and Selected Factors
Associated with Infant Deaths
Summers County Residents, 1989 - 1998


Factor
Births Infant Deaths
Number Percent Number Percent
Total 1,263 13
Birthweight < 2,500 Grams 111 8.8 10 76.9
Birthweight < 1,500 Grams 15 1.2 6 46.2
Gestational Age < 37 Weeks 165 13.1 10 76.9
Age of Mother < 20 Years 255 20.2 3 23.1
Age of Mother < 15 Years 8 0.6 0 0.0
Unmarried Mothers 388 30.7 1 7.7
Mothers Using Tobacco 418 33.1 3 23.1
Mothers Using Alcohol 36 2.9 0 0.0
White Mothers 1,223 96.8 13 100.0
Black Mothers 38 3.0 0 0.0
Mothers of Other Races 2 0.2 0 0.0

Factor
Births Infant Deaths
Number Percent Number Percent



Last updated March 7, 2001.

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