SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF NESHOBA 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 295 215 80 11.0 11.8 9.1
HEART DISEASES 112 91 21 415.8 500.5 239.9
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 57 42 15 211.6 231.0 171.4
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 22 15 7 81.7 82.5 80.0
ACCIDENTS 19 13 6 70.5 71.5 68.6
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 14 11 3 52.0 60.5 34.3
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 9 7 2 33.4 38.5 22.8
DIABETES MELLITUS 7 4 3 26.0 22.0 34.3
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 5 2 3 18.6 11.0 34.3
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 4 3 1 14.8 16.5 11.4
SUICIDE 3 2 1 11.1 11.0 11.4
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 3 0 3 11.1 0.0 34.3
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 2 1 1 7.4 5.5 11.4
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 1 0 1 2.2 0.0 4.9
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 9 5 4 33.4 27.5 45.7
ALL OTHER 28 19 9 104.0 104.5 102.8
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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 295 215 80 142 101 41 153 114 39
UNDER 1 4 0 4 2 0 2 2 0 2
(NEONATAL) 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1
(POSTNEONATAL) 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1
1-4 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
5-9 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 0
10-14 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
15-24 7 5 2 4 3 1 3 2 1
25-34 7 2 5 5 2 3 2 0 2
35-44 10 4 6 7 3 4 3 1 2
45-54 21 12 9 7 4 3 14 8 6
55-64 33 25 8 22 18 4 11 7 4
65-74 52 34 18 26 17 9 26 17 9
75-84 68 58 10 35 29 6 33 29 4
85 AND OVER 88 72 16 31 24 7 57 48 9
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 26,934
WHITE 18,182
NONWHITE 8,752
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