ABSTRACT
Eleven thousand; three hundred and eighty-four infants were admitted into the Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital; Sokoto; over a three-year period; 1984 - 1986. Of these children; 818 died; a mortality rate of seven percent; 68 percent of all the deaths occurred in neonates. The main causes of death among these neonates were prematurity and associated respiratory problems; septicaemia and birth trauma. In the post-neonatal period; the main causes of death included gastroenteritis; lower respiratory tract infection; septicaemia and anaemia. Many of the causes of death were preventable and this fact stresses the need to improve the provision of primary health care services to pregnant women and newborn babies
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Infant MortalityABSTRACT
Clinical and anatomical studies of the genitalia of 294 camel (197 males and 97 females) were carried out between May 1984 and October 1985. Preslaughter (clinical) examination was followed by detailed post-mortem (anatomical) examination and dissection of genitalia at the abattoir. Measurements and weights of the various segments of genitalia were made to establish the baseline data for breeding soundness evaluation in the dromedary in Northern Nigeria.