1989 Annual Report of Vital Statistics Department of Health, City of New Haven
 

TABLE VI
Total Immature Births
Teenage Mothers and Infant Deaths
per Neighborhood
New Haven: 1989

    Low Birth Weight (<2500g) Teenage Mothers (<=19 yrs) Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 Live Births)
Neighborhood Total Live Births # % # % # %
Central Business District 8 1 12.5% 3 37.5% 0 0.0
Long Wharf-Church St. South 34 9 26.5% 5 14.7% 1 29.4
Hill 555 73 13.2% 154 27.7% 7 12.6
Dwight 124 21 16.9% 28 22.6% 3 24.2
Edgewood-West River 178 19 10.7% 28 15.7% 4 22.5
Westville 91 5 5.5% 3 3.3% 0 0.0
West Hills 170 22 12.9% 23 13.5% 4 23.5
Beaver Hills 81 12 14.8% 10 12.3% 0 0.0
Newhallville 204 44 21.6% 51 25.0% 6 29.4
Dixwell 116 14 12.1% 25 21.6% 1 8.6
Yale 11 1 9.1% 0 0.0% 0 0.0
Prospect Hill 100 9 9.0% 9 9.0% 1 10.0
East Rock 73 3 4.1% 4 5.5% 0 0.0
Wooster Square 60 12 20.0% 9 15.0% 4 66.7
Fair Haven 369 35 9.5% 76 20.6% 8 21.7
Heights 194 12 6.2% 16 8.2% 1 5.2
East Shore (Annex) 123 12 9.8% 7 5.7% 1 8.1
Unknown 49 5 10.2% 6 12.2% 6 122.4
               
               
Overall 2,540 309 12.2% 457 18.0% 47 18.5

 
This document was digitized on March 15, 1999 by Andrew Swan as part of the New Haven Health Project.
http://www.med.yale.edu/newhavenhealth/