title: Characteristics of infant mortality in the RSA 1929-1983. Part I. Components of the white and coloured infant mortality rate.
abstract: Secular trends in white and coloured neonatal, post-neonatal and infant mortality rates are presented for the period 1929-1983. More detailed information is given for deaths in the first month of life. During this 54-year period the infant mortality rate for whites has declined from 64.2/1,000 to 13.5/1,000, whereas the rate for coloureds fell from 158.8 (1938) to 55.0/1,000. The greater part of the latter decline occurred after 1970. Since 1945 the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) for whites has exceeded the post-neonatal mortality rate (PNMR) but among coloureds the PNMR still exceeds the NMR.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health, University of Cape Town.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Rip
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Bourne
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Woods
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013019:South Africa; D044465:White People