SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON 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 699 290 409 9.9 10.2 9.8
HEART DISEASES 300 136 164 426.1 477.2 391.3
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 138 55 83 196.0 193.0 198.0
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 48 19 29 68.2 66.7 69.2
ACCIDENTS 36 12 24 51.1 42.1 57.3
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 24 16 8 34.1 56.1 19.1
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 21 11 10 29.8 38.6 23.9
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 19 0 19 27.0 0.0 45.3
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 10 5 5 14.2 17.5 11.9
SUICIDE 8 5 3 11.4 17.5 7.2
DIABETES MELLITUS 4 2 2 5.7 7.0 4.8
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 4 1 3 5.7 3.5 7.2
HIV INFECTION 4 3 1 5.7 10.5 2.4
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 3 0 3 4.3 0.0 7.2
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 3 0 3 2.4 0.0 3.3
HYPERTENSION 2 0 2 2.8 0.0 4.8
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 2 2 0 2.8 7.0 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 10 3 7 14.2 10.5 16.7
ALL OTHER 63 20 43 89.5 70.2 102.6
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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 699 290 409 388 163 225 311 127 184
UNDER 1 14 0 14 9 0 9 5 0 5
(NEONATAL) 7 0 7 4 0 4 3 0 3
(POSTNEONATAL) 7 0 7 5 0 5 2 0 2
1-4 4 0 4 2 0 2 2 0 2
5-9 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
10-14 3 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0
15-24 17 6 11 11 4 7 6 2 4
25-34 28 11 17 20 7 13 8 4 4
35-44 29 6 23 22 6 16 7 0 7
45-54 51 22 29 39 17 22 12 5 7
55-64 83 31 52 47 17 30 36 14 22
65-74 135 64 71 85 44 41 50 20 30
75-84 185 83 102 89 39 50 96 44 52
85 AND OVER 149 67 82 60 29 31 89 38 51
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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