SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF HARRISON 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 1,632 1,336 296 9.6 10.2 7.4
HEART DISEASES 631 512 119 369.3 390.8 298.7
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 378 329 49 221.2 251.1 123.0
ACCIDENTS 80 55 25 46.8 42.0 62.7
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 69 56 13 40.4 42.7 32.6
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 67 62 5 39.2 47.3 12.6
SUICIDE 47 41 6 27.5 31.3 15.0
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 45 37 8 26.3 28.2 20.1
DIABETES MELLITUS 21 18 3 12.3 13.7 7.5
HIV INFECTION 21 16 5 12.3 12.2 12.6
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 20 11 9 11.7 8.4 22.6
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 17 13 4 10.0 9.9 10.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 12 8 4 7.0 6.1 10.0
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 11 8 3 6.4 6.1 7.5
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 7 3 4 2.4 1.5 4.6
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 5 5 0 2.9 3.8 0.0
HYPERTENSION 3 3 0 1.8 2.3 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 8 6 2 4.7 4.6 5.0
ALL OTHER 190 153 37 111.2 116.8 92.9
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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 1,632 1,336 296 893 734 159 739 602 137
UNDER 1 22 14 8 13 10 3 9 4 5
(NEONATAL) 11 7 4 7 5 2 4 2 2
(POSTNEONATAL) 11 7 4 6 5 1 5 2 3
1-4 8 5 3 4 3 1 4 2 2
5-9 6 1 5 6 1 5 0 0 0
10-14 2 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
15-24 27 14 13 17 10 7 10 4 6
25-34 64 45 19 47 33 14 17 12 5
35-44 80 60 20 55 43 12 25 17 8
45-54 99 74 25 70 50 20 29 24 5
55-64 200 166 34 121 103 18 79 63 16
65-74 403 349 54 236 205 31 167 144 23
75-84 430 367 63 232 203 29 198 164 34
85 AND OVER 291 239 52 90 71 19 201 168 33
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 170,862
WHITE 131,020
NONWHITE 39,842
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