British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 713

CHAPTER XVI.

(c) Very high percentages of decrease are found in Haifa subdistrict (51 %) , Nablus sub-district (40%); Jaffa sub-district (38%); Tulkarm sub-district (39%); Ramleh sub-district (34%) and Jenin sub-district (34%).

It seems not accidental that out of these six more progressive subdistricts, four have a very substantial and increasing Jewish population (Jaffa, Haifa, Ramleh, Tulkarm). Out of the other two sub-districts with a considerable percentage of Jews, Tiberias has also a low mortality rate, whilst only Nazareth has a rather high one.

178. As stated before, child mortality rates are a much more sensitive measure of progress in health and in standard of life than infant mortality. Therefore tables 15 and 16, have been supplemented by table 17 which shows child. mortality rates for 1927-44 :-

(a) in each of the three main towns, (b) in all other towns together,

(c) in the villages of each of the four more progressive sub districts of the coastal plain,

(d) in villages of all other sub-districts together and (e) in all Palestine.

Table 17.

CHILD MORTALITY RATES AT AGES 0-5 (PER 1,000) AMONG MOSLEMS OF PALESTINE.

Towns Villages in sub-districts Total
Yea1• ! Jeru- All , . Tu!- o~1;i- Pales-
se.lem I Jaffa I Bolfa I other I J*fl* I Bamle I Ra>fa I ka<m I sub .,00
towns districts
1927-29 2651 5521 4084 4108 U!).S 427 8 8471 ., .. I m, 4UG
1930-82 2160 8952 370 9 8851 808. 867' 8043 828 5 2GS 4 3526
19SS-35 2572 885 0 894 8 8292 240 a aot.s 2847 273 2 a52 5 386 l
1936-38 2018 lSS 6 2810 290. 2154 291 8 223 0 2817 298 0 286,S
1939-41 220 l 2649 1809 2904 224 0 906 l 1899 294 8 292 5 2!)0 l
1942-44 1992 257G 2477 249 a 1'15.7 2149 1299 --=-1-=:- 251 0
%decrease
lroml927-29
to 1942-44 27 5 sa.s as a 40 5 "'' "8 62 6 417 as 4 390
Taking into consideration first of all the rural population, it appears from this table that from 1927-29 child mortality was very high and more uniformly distributed among the various subdistricts. At that time, in all sub-districts, about 40 children out of 100 died before reaching 5 years of age. At present the number of children dying before the age of 5 is 13 in Haifa sub-district,

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