SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF HINDS COUNTY, 1996
--------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 2,449 1,231 1,218 9.7 10.6 8.9
HEART DISEASES 763 405 358 301.5 349.6 260.8
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 561 288 273 221.6 248.6 198.9
ACCIDENTS 129 56 73 51.0 48.3 53.2
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 125 70 55 49.4 60.4 40.1
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 90 69 21 35.6 59.6 15.3
HIV INFECTION 86 20 66 34.0 17.3 48.1
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 75 12 63 29.6 10.4 45.9
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 74 45 29 29.2 38.8 21.1
DIABETES MELLITUS 52 15 37 20.5 12.9 27.0
SUICIDE 37 31 6 14.6 26.8 4.4
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 30 20 10 11.8 17.3 7.3
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 24 5 19 9.5 4.3 13.8
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 19 1 18 4.8 0.9 6.2
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 17 4 13 6.7 3.4 9.5
HYPERTENSION 12 1 11 4.7 0.9 8.0
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 2 0 2 0.8 0.0 1.4
TUBERCULOSIS 1 0 1 0.4 0.0 0.7
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 21 10 11 8.3 8.6 8.0
ALL OTHER 331 179 152 130.8 154.5 110.8
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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 2,449 1,231 1,218 1,284 607 677 1,165 624 541
UNDER 1 55 10 45 37 5 32 18 5 13
(NEONATAL) 36 5 31 27 2 25 9 3 6
(POSTNEONATAL) 19 5 14 10 3 7 9 2 7
1-4 9 0 9 6 0 6 3 0 3
5-9 8 0 8 6 0 6 2 0 2
10-14 5 1 4 3 0 3 2 1 1
15-24 77 18 59 59 13 46 18 5 13
25-34 102 24 78 71 18 53 31 6 25
35-44 146 42 104 93 29 64 53 13 40
45-54 194 73 121 132 50 82 62 23 39
55-64 246 109 137 139 63 76 107 46 61
65-74 467 268 199 266 162 104 201 106 95
75-84 620 378 242 312 181 131 308 197 111
85 AND OVER 520 308 212 160 86 74 360 222 138
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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