Actual and official mortality rate according to the political-administrative divisions of the county of São Paulo, Brazil, from 1959 to 1963: (a few considerations of epidemiologic and administrative interest)

Abstract

The author, for the first time among us, studies the death rate of children from one to four years old through the political-administrative divisions of the county of São Paulo. After demonstrating that for this study the official data on deaths in the county, due to the different social, economical and sanitary conditions of each of these areas when compared to each other, are not adequate, proposes their substitution by corresponding "official" ones which he personally obtained through the examination of the death certificates in the capital. He presents below some aspects of the "official" death rate of children from one to four years old in the districts and sub-districts of our county, which take on epidemiological and administrative importance for our sanitarians, when these, through the use of this data, taken as a health indicator, must plan, schedule and execute their public health services in our municipality.