title: A survey of admissions and deaths in a black paediatric department.
abstract: Patterns of paediatric illness in hospital were surveyed with a view to planning for improved community health services. High morbidity and early mortality from neonatal, nutritional, gastro-intestinal and respiratory disease reflected late referral to hospital of seriously ill children. Combined preventive, promotive and primary care clinics, health education and improved transport facilities for the sick are a high priority for the area.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009026:Mortality; D010343:Patient Admission; D010372:Pediatrics; D012621:Seasons; D013019:South Africa