SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF WINSTON 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 243 172 71 12.4 15.8 8.1
HEART DISEASES 109 79 30 556.3 726.3 344.1
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 41 29 12 209.2 266.6 137.6
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 20 12 8 102.1 110.3 91.8
ACCIDENTS 12 10 2 61.2 91.9 22.9
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 9 9 0 45.9 82.7 0.0
DIABETES MELLITUS 6 4 2 30.6 36.8 22.9
SUICIDE 5 5 0 25.5 46.0 0.0
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 3 3 0 15.3 27.6 0.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 3 1 2 15.3 9.2 22.9
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 3 0 3 15.3 0.0 34.4
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 2 2 0 10.2 18.4 0.0
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 2 0 2 8.1 0.0 15.5
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 1 1 0 5.1 9.2 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 7 3 4 35.7 27.6 45.9
ALL OTHER 20 14 6 102.1 128.7 68.8
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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 243 172 71 115 78 37 128 94 34
UNDER 1 4 0 4 3 0 3 1 0 1
(NEONATAL) 3 0 3 2 0 2 1 0 1
(POSTNEONATAL) 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
1-4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
5-9 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
10-14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15-24 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
25-34 8 5 3 6 4 2 2 1 1
35-44 10 7 3 8 6 2 2 1 1
45-54 13 9 4 8 7 1 5 2 3
55-64 23 6 17 11 4 7 12 2 10
65-74 48 31 17 30 22 8 18 9 9
75-84 59 47 12 28 20 8 31 27 4
85 AND OVER 73 62 11 19 13 6 54 49 5
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 19,595
WHITE 10,877
NONWHITE 8,718
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