Table 1

Trends in mortality due to SIDS

	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	Total 1993–98
Among triplets and higher order multiple births in 1993–98 there were 4949 live births with six deaths due to SIDS, a rate of 1.21 per 1000 live births.
Singletons
No. of SIDS	407	397	344	371	353	260	2132
No. of live births	654224	646887	629948	631760	624654	617754	3805227
SIDS rate/1000	0.62	0.61	0.55	0.59	0.57	0.42	0.56
Twins
No. of SIDS	23	20	25	21	15	11	115
No. of live births	16268	16577	17196	16931	17551	17256	101779
SIDS rate/1000 live births	1.41	1.21	1.45	1.24	0.85	0.64	1.13