SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY, 1995
--------NUMBER------- ---MORTALITY RATE*--
LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH NON- NON-
LISTED IN DESCENDING ORDER TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL OF ALL CAUSES 172 78 94 12.2 15.5 10.4
HEART DISEASES 55 34 21 390.4 674.5 232.1
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 37 16 21 262.6 317.4 232.1
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 13 5 8 92.3 99.2 88.4
ACCIDENTS 13 2 11 92.3 39.7 121.6
DIABETES MELLITUS 7 1 6 49.7 19.8 66.3
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 6 4 2 42.6 79.3 22.1
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 6 2 4 42.6 39.7 44.2
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 5 1 4 35.5 19.8 44.2
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 3 1 2 21.3 19.8 22.1
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 3 0 3 12.4 0.0 18.1
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 1 1 0 7.1 19.8 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 1 0 1 7.1 0.0 11.0
ALL OTHER 22 11 11 156.2 218.2 121.6
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* 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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL 172 78 94 90 44 46 82 34 48
UNDER 1 5 0 5 2 0 2 3 0 3
(NEONATAL) 5 0 5 2 0 2 3 0 3
(POSTNEONATAL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-4 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
5-9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10-14 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
15-24 3 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2
25-34 4 1 3 4 1 3 0 0 0
35-44 11 2 9 7 2 5 4 0 4
45-54 18 4 14 8 3 5 10 1 9
55-64 16 11 5 10 8 2 6 3 3
65-74 28 13 15 14 8 6 14 5 9
75-84 41 21 20 27 14 13 14 7 7
85 AND OVER 44 25 19 15 7 8 29 18 11
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 14,087
WHITE 5,041
NONWHITE 9,046
---------------------
