British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 712

CHAPTER XVl.

Table 16.

INFANT MORTALITY RATES (PER 1,000) AMONG MOSLEMS OF PALESTINE IN VILLAGES OF EACH SUB-DISTRICT*.

Sub-district 1925-30 1940-44 Percentage
decrease
Sa fad 201 184 8
Gaza 222 156 so
Ramallah 165 149 JO
Nazareth 184 148 . 20
Jerusalem 179 144 19
Tulkarm 225 ms 39
Nablus 22G 136 40
Jinin 197 130 94
Tiberias l 7G 127 28
Acre 151 119 21
Ramleh 168 111 84
Jaffa 150 94 38
Haifa 177 BG 51
Total 191 128 33
Table 16 reveals several interesting features :-

(a) The rural population all over Palestine has made very substantial progress in reducing infant mortality.

(b) The progress was, however, not evenly distributed. In 1925-30 the rate of mortality was rather uniform, the subdistrict being distributed as follows :-

sub-districts with a rate of -

150 1 (Jaffa) 151-175 3 176-200 5 201-225 3

2~6 1

In 1940-44 the sub-districts are much more differentiated, the rates ranging between 86 and 184. The rates are between 86 and 111 in three sub-districts of the coastal plain where Arab population is largely mixed with Jewish population viz :

Haifa, Jaffa and Ramleh. In the internal districts they are relatively uniform (between 119 and 149) and they are highest at the two extremities of Palestine, Gaza in the south and Safad in the north.
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* Data for Beersheba sub-district are not available; data for Hebron sub-district are inaccurate and have been omitted.

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