SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF HINDS COUNTY, 1995
--------NUMBER------- ---MORTALITY RATE*--
LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH NON- NON-
LISTED IN DESCENDING ORDER TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
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TOTAL OF ALL CAUSES 2,421 1,261 1,160 9.6 10.9 8.4
HEART DISEASES 810 450 360 320.0 388.4 262.3
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 535 298 237 211.4 257.2 172.7
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 151 89 62 59.7 76.8 45.2
ACCIDENTS 117 57 60 46.2 49.2 43.7
HIV INFECTION 93 31 62 36.7 26.8 45.2
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 88 4 84 34.8 3.4 61.2
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 81 51 30 32.0 44.0 21.8
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 71 53 18 28.0 45.7 13.1
DIABETES MELLITUS 43 14 29 17.0 12.1 21.1
SUICIDE 27 14 13 10.7 12.1 9.5
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 22 10 12 8.7 8.6 8.7
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 21 2 19 5.1 1.7 6.5
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 19 13 6 7.5 11.2 4.4
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 15 6 9 5.9 5.2 6.6
HYPERTENSION 7 3 4 2.8 2.6 2.9
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 5 3 2 2.0 2.6 1.4
TUBERCULOSIS 3 0 3 1.2 0.0 2.2
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 1 1 0 0.4 0.9 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 19 6 13 7.5 5.2 9.5
ALL OTHER 293 156 137 115.8 134.6 99.8
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* TOTAL DEATHS PER 1,000 POPULATION. DEATHS FROM SPECIFIC CAUSES ARE PER
100,000 POPULATION, EXCEPT DEATHS FROM MATERNAL CAUSES ARE PER 100,000
LIVE BIRTHS AND DEATHS FROM CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD ARE PER
1,000 LIVE BIRTHS. POPULATION FIGURES ARE 1995 PROJECTION.
# LESS THAN 0.06.
------- TOTAL ------ ------ MALE ------- ----- FEMALE ------
NON- NON- NON-
AGE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
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TOTAL 2,421 1,261 1,160 1,260 617 643 1,161 644 517
UNDER 1 43 7 36 23 4 19 20 3 17
(NEONATAL) 25 4 21 13 2 11 12 2 10
(POSTNEONATAL) 18 3 15 10 2 8 8 1 7
1-4 12 3 9 5 1 4 7 2 5
5-9 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
10-14 6 2 4 3 0 3 3 2 1
15-24 78 18 60 63 13 50 15 5 10
25-34 108 21 87 73 15 58 35 6 29
35-44 135 45 90 105 36 69 30 9 21
45-54 200 71 129 121 44 77 79 27 52
55-64 264 126 138 163 85 78 101 41 60
65-74 488 285 203 259 152 107 229 133 96
75-84 598 370 228 287 173 114 311 197 114
85 AND OVER 487 311 176 157 93 64 330 218 112
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 253,096
WHITE 115,854
NONWHITE 137,242
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