SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF LOWNDES 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 499 315 184 8.1 8.4 7.7
HEART DISEASES 160 102 58 260.2 271.3 242.8
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 110 79 31 178.9 210.2 129.8
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 39 29 10 63.4 77.1 41.9
ACCIDENTS 23 9 14 37.4 23.9 58.6
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 14 10 4 22.8 26.6 16.7
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 12 11 1 19.5 29.3 4.2
HYPERTENSION 10 2 8 16.3 5.3 33.5
DIABETES MELLITUS 9 7 2 14.6 18.6 8.4
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 8 3 5 8.0 6.0 10.0
HIV INFECTION 8 1 7 13.0 2.7 29.3
SUICIDE 7 6 1 11.4 16.0 4.2
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 6 3 3 9.8 8.0 12.6
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 5 2 3 8.1 5.3 12.6
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 5 2 3 8.1 5.3 12.6
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 4 2 2 6.5 5.3 8.4
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 2 1 1 3.2 2.7 4.2
TUBERCULOSIS 1 1 0 1.6 2.7 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 21 12 9 34.2 31.9 37.7
ALL OTHER 55 33 22 89.5 87.8 92.1
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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 499 315 184 254 155 99 245 160 85
UNDER 1 20 8 12 13 7 6 7 1 6
(NEONATAL) 11 5 6 7 4 3 4 1 3
(POSTNEONATAL) 9 3 6 6 3 3 3 0 3
1-4 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
5-9 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
10-14 5 1 4 5 1 4 0 0 0
15-24 6 2 4 4 2 2 2 0 2
25-34 20 8 12 13 5 8 7 3 4
35-44 19 8 11 15 7 8 4 1 3
45-54 36 24 12 23 16 7 13 8 5
55-64 51 31 20 31 20 11 20 11 9
65-74 106 74 32 63 43 20 43 31 12
75-84 135 92 43 60 38 22 75 54 21
85 AND OVER 98 66 32 26 15 11 72 51 21
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 61,480
WHITE 37,591
NONWHITE 23,889
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