BackgroundEach year about 32.4 million of children are born with low birth weight, which is below the 10th percentile for their gestational ages; moreover, about fifteen million of them are premature. Actually, about 60% of neonatal deaths occur in low birth weight neonates related to their prematurity. This study aimed to determine the neonatal death rate and the most common causes of the hosp...

backgroundeach year about 32.4 million of children are born with low birth weight, which is below the 10th percentile for their gestational ages; moreover, about fifteen million of them are premature. actually, about 60% of neonatal deaths occur in low birth weight neonates related to their prematurity. this study aimed to determine the neonatal death rate and the most common causes of the hosp...

The report which I last laid before the Society referred to the fourteen months ending 31st November, 1862. The present report refers to the fourth quarter of 1862 and the year 1863. In subsequent reports it will unquestionably be best, as in the report which I am about to submit to the Society for 1863, to include, for the purpose of ready comparison with the detailed reports of the Registrars...