SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF NEWTON 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 270 186 84 12.5 12.9 11.7
HEART DISEASES 85 61 24 393.0 422.6 333.5
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 77 56 21 356.0 388.0 291.8
ACCIDENTS 20 8 12 92.5 55.4 166.8
DIABETES MELLITUS 12 8 4 55.5 55.4 55.6
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 12 10 2 55.5 69.3 27.8
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 9 7 2 41.6 48.5 27.8
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 5 4 1 23.1 27.7 13.9
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 4 2 2 18.5 13.8 27.8
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 4 1 3 11.6 5.6 18.1
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 3 3 0 13.9 20.8 0.0
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 3 1 2 13.9 6.9 27.8
SUICIDE 2 1 1 9.2 6.9 13.9
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 2 2 0 9.2 13.8 0.0
HIV INFECTION 2 1 1 9.2 6.9 13.9
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 1 1 0 4.6 6.9 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALL OTHER 29 20 9 134.1 138.6 125.1
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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 270 186 84 131 95 36 139 91 48
UNDER 1 9 2 7 6 2 4 3 0 3
(NEONATAL) 6 2 4 4 2 2 2 0 2
(POSTNEONATAL) 3 0 3 2 0 2 1 0 1
1-4 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
5-9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10-14 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2
15-24 9 4 5 4 1 3 5 3 2
25-34 5 2 3 4 1 3 1 1 0
35-44 14 10 4 7 7 0 7 3 4
45-54 22 14 8 12 9 3 10 5 5
55-64 34 20 14 18 12 6 16 8 8
65-74 52 35 17 26 18 8 26 17 9
75-84 69 58 11 33 30 3 36 28 8
85 AND OVER 52 40 12 20 14 6 32 26 6
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 21,630
WHITE 14,434
NONWHITE 7,196
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