SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF GRENADA COUNTY, 1996
--------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 250 150 100 11.4 12.0 10.6
HEART DISEASES 79 49 30 360.0 392.2 317.5
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 52 31 21 237.0 248.1 222.2
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 39 26 13 177.7 208.1 137.6
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 15 8 7 68.4 64.0 74.1
ACCIDENTS 13 7 6 59.2 56.0 63.5
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 3 3 0 13.7 24.0 0.0
HYPERTENSION 2 1 1 9.1 8.0 10.6
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 2 0 2 9.1 0.0 21.2
TUBERCULOSIS 1 0 1 4.6 0.0 10.6
DIABETES MELLITUS 1 0 1 4.6 0.0 10.6
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 1 1 0 4.6 8.0 0.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 1 0 1 4.6 0.0 10.6
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 1 1 0 4.6 8.0 0.0
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 1 0 1 3.1 0.0 6.1
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 1 1 0 4.6 8.0 0.0
ALL OTHER 38 22 16 173.2 176.1 169.3
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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 250 150 100 127 73 54 123 77 46
UNDER 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
(NEONATAL) 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
(POSTNEONATAL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5-9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10-14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15-24 4 0 4 3 0 3 1 0 1
25-34 5 1 4 3 0 3 2 1 1
35-44 13 4 9 6 3 3 7 1 6
45-54 19 6 13 12 5 7 7 1 6
55-64 25 15 10 14 10 4 11 5 6
65-74 45 28 17 30 20 10 15 8 7
75-84 67 49 18 32 21 11 35 28 7
85 AND OVER 71 47 24 26 14 12 45 33 12
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 21,942
WHITE 12,493
NONWHITE 9,449
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