SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF HARRISON 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 1,622 1,313 309 9.5 10.0 7.8
HEART DISEASES 648 525 123 379.2 400.7 308.7
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 368 308 60 215.4 235.1 150.6
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 73 53 20 42.7 40.4 50.2
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 67 62 5 39.2 47.3 12.6
ACCIDENTS 66 47 19 38.6 35.9 47.7
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 60 51 9 35.1 38.9 22.6
DIABETES MELLITUS 28 22 6 16.4 16.8 15.0
SUICIDE 23 21 2 13.5 16.0 5.0
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 20 18 2 11.7 13.7 5.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 18 12 6 10.5 9.2 15.0
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 17 13 4 10.0 9.9 10.0
HIV INFECTION 15 8 7 8.8 6.1 17.6
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 11 6 5 4.0 3.2 6.0
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 10 6 4 5.8 4.6 10.0
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 6 5 1 3.5 3.8 2.5
HYPERTENSION 2 0 2 1.2 0.0 5.0
TUBERCULOSIS 1 1 0 0.6 0.8 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 15 11 4 8.8 8.4 10.0
ALL OTHER 174 144 30 101.8 109.9 75.3
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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 1,622 1,313 309 863 689 174 759 624 135
UNDER 1 24 12 12 12 6 6 12 6 6
(NEONATAL) 19 9 10 10 4 6 9 5 4
(POSTNEONATAL) 5 3 2 2 2 0 3 1 2
1-4 7 5 2 5 3 2 2 2 0
5-9 5 3 2 3 2 1 2 1 1
10-14 6 4 2 4 3 1 2 1 1
15-24 20 12 8 15 9 6 5 3 2
25-34 48 38 10 36 28 8 12 10 2
35-44 68 46 22 43 30 13 25 16 9
45-54 118 86 32 72 49 23 46 37 9
55-64 210 163 47 131 98 33 79 65 14
65-74 363 305 58 215 181 34 148 124 24
75-84 466 396 70 237 203 34 229 193 36
85 AND OVER 287 243 44 90 77 13 197 166 31
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 170,862
WHITE 131,020
NONWHITE 39,842
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