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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1984 30(6):293-296; doi:10.1093/tropej/30.6.293
© 1984 by Oxford University Press
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Birthweights in a Rural Solomon Island Population

Martin Strahan, MB, BS

Resident Medical Officer Royal Brisbane Hospital Queensland, Australia, 4029

Records of 1088 consecutive hospital births in a rural unacculturated Melanesian population in the Solomon Islands were studied. The mean birthweight for single liveborn infants was 3100gm (S.D. 453), and for all live births was 3065 gm (S.D. 486). The incidence of low birthweight as determined by two different standards; equal to or less than 2500 gm and less than the Mean—2 Standard Deviations, was 8.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively for single liveborn infants and 11.5 per cent and 3.2 per cent for all liveborn infants. A high twinning rate of 1:33 and a high incidence of multiparity was found. Only 25 per cent of births were primiparous. The birthweight was shown to increase significantly with increasing parity.


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