Sudden infant deaths by quarter of occurrence and Health Regional Office, 1999
Sudden infant deaths by quarter of occurrence and Health Regional Office, 1999
Sudden infant deaths by quarter of occurrence and Health Regional Office, 1999.
Extracted from 'Health Statistics Quarterly 07' Report: Sudden infant deaths 1999.
This report presents provisional statistics on sudden infant deaths in England and Wales which occurred in 1999. It also compares the number of sudden infant deaths by sex, age at death and month of occurrence with data from 1995 to 1998.
There were 279 sudden infant deaths which occurred in England and Wales in 1999, compared with 286 in 1998, a decrease of two per cent. The sudden infant death rate remained the same as in 1998, at 0.45 per 1,000 live births.
Key findings for the period 1995-99:
Sudden infant deaths are more common amongst boys than girls. In the period 1995-99, 60 per cent of all s...
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