SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF JACKSON 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 1,038 849 189 7.8 8.2 6.3
HEART DISEASES 331 274 57 248.6 265.6 190.1
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 256 215 41 192.3 208.4 136.7
ACCIDENTS 67 53 14 50.3 51.4 46.7
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 57 43 14 42.8 41.7 46.7
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 42 38 4 31.5 36.8 13.3
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 35 30 5 26.3 29.1 16.7
DIABETES MELLITUS 17 11 6 12.8 10.7 20.0
SUICIDE 16 16 0 12.0 15.5 0.0
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 15 8 7 11.3 7.8 23.3
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 13 10 3 9.8 9.7 10.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 11 9 2 8.3 8.7 6.7
HIV INFECTION 9 8 1 6.8 7.8 3.3
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 8 7 1 6.0 6.8 3.3
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 6 6 0 4.5 5.8 0.0
HYPERTENSION 5 4 1 3.8 3.9 3.3
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 4 1 3 2.3 0.8 5.6
MATERNAL CAUSES 1 0 1 56.7 0.0 188.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 4 3 1 3.0 2.9 3.3
ALL OTHER 141 113 28 105.9 109.6 93.4
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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 1,038 849 189 564 462 102 474 387 87
UNDER 1 18 11 7 10 7 3 8 4 4
(NEONATAL) 13 8 5 8 5 3 5 3 2
(POSTNEONATAL) 5 3 2 2 2 0 3 1 2
1-4 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
5-9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10-14 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
15-24 23 19 4 16 14 2 7 5 2
25-34 30 23 7 22 17 5 8 6 2
35-44 50 33 17 31 23 8 19 10 9
45-54 89 66 23 56 41 15 33 25 8
55-64 150 114 36 94 74 20 56 40 16
65-74 226 190 36 136 114 22 90 76 14
75-84 256 223 33 136 118 18 120 105 15
85 AND OVER 192 167 25 61 52 9 131 115 16
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 133,134
WHITE 103,144
NONWHITE 29,990
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