SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF LEFLORE 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 424 189 235 11.5 14.0 10.0
HEART DISEASES 178 93 85 481.5 690.4 361.7
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 84 40 44 227.2 297.0 187.2
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 22 7 15 59.5 52.0 63.8
ACCIDENTS 17 6 11 46.0 44.5 46.8
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 14 8 6 37.9 59.4 25.5
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 13 1 12 35.2 7.4 51.1
DIABETES MELLITUS 11 5 6 29.8 37.1 25.5
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 9 4 5 24.3 29.7 21.3
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 8 1 7 21.6 7.4 29.8
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 6 1 5 8.7 7.3 9.0
SUICIDE 5 5 0 13.5 37.1 0.0
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 3 0 3 8.1 0.0 12.8
HYPERTENSION 2 1 1 5.4 7.4 4.2
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 2 2 0 5.4 14.8 0.0
HIV INFECTION 2 0 2 5.4 0.0 8.5
TUBERCULOSIS 1 0 1 2.7 0.0 4.2
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 3 2 1 8.1 14.8 4.2
ALL OTHER 44 13 31 119.0 96.5 131.9
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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 424 189 235 209 84 125 215 105 110
UNDER 1 11 1 10 5 1 4 6 0 6
(NEONATAL) 8 1 7 4 1 3 4 0 4
(POSTNEONATAL) 3 0 3 1 0 1 2 0 2
1-4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
5-9 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
10-14 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
15-24 16 0 16 13 0 13 3 0 3
25-34 12 3 9 9 2 7 3 1 2
35-44 18 1 17 9 0 9 9 1 8
45-54 29 9 20 23 7 16 6 2 4
55-64 34 12 22 20 9 11 14 3 11
65-74 88 41 47 54 26 28 34 15 19
75-84 101 57 44 47 27 20 54 30 24
85 AND OVER 112 64 48 28 11 17 84 53 31
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 36,970
WHITE 13,470
NONWHITE 23,500
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