SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON 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 688 292 396 9.8 10.2 9.4
HEART DISEASES 261 111 150 370.7 389.5 357.9
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 143 73 70 203.1 256.1 167.0
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 50 22 28 71.0 77.2 66.8
ACCIDENTS 30 11 19 42.6 38.6 45.3
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 21 12 9 29.8 42.1 21.5
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 16 6 10 22.7 21.0 23.9
DIABETES MELLITUS 14 5 9 19.9 17.5 21.5
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 14 3 11 19.9 10.5 26.2
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 12 1 11 17.0 3.5 26.2
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 7 1 6 9.9 3.5 14.3
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 6 3 3 8.5 10.5 7.2
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 6 0 6 5.0 0.0 6.6
SUICIDE 4 4 0 5.7 14.0 0.0
HIV INFECTION 4 1 3 5.7 3.5 7.2
HYPERTENSION 3 1 2 4.3 3.5 4.8
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 3 3 0 4.3 10.5 0.0
TUBERCULOSIS 1 0 1 1.4 0.0 2.4
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 8 3 5 11.4 10.5 11.9
ALL OTHER 85 32 53 120.7 112.3 126.5
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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 688 292 396 360 154 206 328 138 190
UNDER 1 14 3 11 8 1 7 6 2 4
(NEONATAL) 9 2 7 7 1 6 2 1 1
(POSTNEONATAL) 5 1 4 1 0 1 4 1 3
1-4 3 0 3 2 0 2 1 0 1
5-9 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
10-14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15-24 13 5 8 11 5 6 2 0 2
25-34 23 6 17 16 4 12 7 2 5
35-44 39 8 31 21 6 15 18 2 16
45-54 53 17 36 31 10 21 22 7 15
55-64 83 23 60 56 18 38 27 5 22
65-74 139 64 75 83 43 40 56 21 35
75-84 173 94 79 88 49 39 85 45 40
85 AND OVER 147 72 75 44 18 26 103 54 49
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 70,411
WHITE 28,501
NONWHITE 41,910
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