SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF JACKSON 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 924 757 167 6.9 7.3 5.6
HEART DISEASES 249 210 39 187.0 203.6 130.0
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 235 202 33 176.5 195.8 110.0
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 72 55 17 54.1 53.3 56.7
ACCIDENTS 53 42 11 39.8 40.7 36.7
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 33 26 7 24.8 25.2 23.3
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 28 26 2 21.0 25.2 6.7
DIABETES MELLITUS 26 18 8 19.5 17.4 26.7
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 18 15 3 13.5 14.5 10.0
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 14 6 8 8.1 4.9 16.1
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 14 8 6 10.5 7.8 20.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 13 11 2 9.8 10.7 6.7
SUICIDE 12 11 1 9.0 10.7 3.3
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 10 5 5 7.5 4.8 16.7
HIV INFECTION 10 6 4 7.5 5.8 13.3
HYPERTENSION 5 4 1 3.8 3.9 3.3
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 3 3 0 2.2 2.9 0.0
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 3 3 0 2.2 2.9 0.0
MATERNAL CAUSES 1 0 1 58.0 0.0 201.2
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 7 4 3 5.2 3.9 10.0
ALL OTHER 118 102 16 88.6 98.9 53.4
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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 924 757 167 502 419 83 422 338 84
UNDER 1 21 11 10 11 5 6 10 6 4
(NEONATAL) 17 8 9 9 3 6 8 5 3
(POSTNEONATAL) 4 3 1 2 2 0 2 1 1
1-4 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
5-9 4 1 3 2 1 1 2 0 2
10-14 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
15-24 18 14 4 12 8 4 6 6 0
25-34 24 14 10 11 8 3 13 6 7
35-44 35 26 9 23 17 6 12 9 3
45-54 69 54 15 46 36 10 23 18 5
55-64 135 104 31 88 73 15 47 31 16
65-74 230 201 29 143 128 15 87 73 14
75-84 228 195 33 113 98 15 115 97 18
85 AND OVER 155 133 22 50 42 8 105 91 14
UNKNOWN 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 133,134
WHITE 103,144
NONWHITE 29,990
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