1994 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: 1994

    Low Birth Weight (<2500g) Teenage Mothers (<=19 yrs) Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 Live Births)
Neighborhood Total Live Births # % # % # %
Central Business District 6 2 33.3% 1 16.7% 0 0.0
Long Wharf-Church St. South 25 1 4.0% 6 24.0% 0 0.0
Hill 318 37 11.6% 83 26.1% 6 18.9
Dwight 94 10 10.6% 20 21.3% 3 31.9
Edgewood-West River 159 21 13.2% 20 12.6% 0 0.0
Westville 78 9 11.5% 4 5.1% 1 12.8
West Hills 167 10 6.0% 38 22.8% 0 0.0
Beaver Hills 83 11 13.3% 9 10.8% 2 24.1
Newhallville 118 17 14.4% 35 29.7% 5 42.4
Dixwell 105 13 12.4% 20 19.0% 2 19.0
Yale 6 0 0.0% 1 16.7% 0 0.0
Prospect Hill 78 4 5.1% 8 10.3% 2 25.6
East Rock 91 4 4.4% 2 2.2% 0 0.0
Wooster Square 42 6 14.3% 6 14.3% 1 23.8
Fair Haven 315 27 8.6% 79 25.1% 2 6.3
Heights 191 18 9.4% 27 14.1% 2 10.5
East Shore (Annex) 106 9 8.5% 11 10.4% 1 9.4
Unknown 8 0 0.0% 1 12.5% 0 0.0
  _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
Overall 1,990 199 10.0% 371 18.6% 27 13.6

 
This document was digitized on March 31, 1999 by Andrew Swan as part of the New Haven Health Project.
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