| [pneumonia as a cause of death in children (author's transl)]. | the yearly death-rate from pneumonia in children aged one month to 15 years has fallen in schleswig-holstein from 1.8 (1954-1958) to 0.6 per ten thousand (1969-1973). at the same time, total death-rate in the same age group has fallen from 14.5 to 9.3 per ten thousand children. the proportion of pneumonia in the total death-rate was 5.3% in 1971-1973, 1.6% in the first month of life and, after the sixteenth year, 2.3%. pneumonia was in fourth place (after accident, malformation and neoplasm) as ... | 1975 | 805694 |