SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF PIKE 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 435 266 169 11.6 13.6 9.5
HEART DISEASES 157 104 53 420.7 531.6 298.5
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 91 54 37 243.8 276.0 208.4
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 27 15 12 72.3 76.7 67.6
DIABETES MELLITUS 22 11 11 58.9 56.2 62.0
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 18 16 2 48.2 81.8 11.3
ACCIDENTS 15 5 10 40.2 25.6 56.3
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 11 4 7 29.5 20.4 39.4
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 10 7 3 26.8 35.8 16.9
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 6 5 1 16.1 25.6 5.6
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 5 3 2 13.4 15.3 11.3
TUBERCULOSIS 2 1 1 5.4 5.1 5.6
HYPERTENSION 1 1 0 2.7 5.1 0.0
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 1 0 1 2.7 0.0 5.6
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 1 0 1 2.7 0.0 5.6
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 1 0 1 1.9 0.0 3.2
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 2 0 2 5.4 0.0 11.3
ALL OTHER 65 40 25 174.2 204.4 140.8
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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 435 266 169 208 135 73 227 131 96
UNDER 1 4 1 3 3 1 2 1 0 1
(NEONATAL) 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0
(POSTNEONATAL) 2 0 2 1 0 1 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 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
15-24 8 3 5 8 3 5 0 0 0
25-34 10 4 6 7 2 5 3 2 1
35-44 19 5 14 7 3 4 12 2 10
45-54 25 11 14 15 8 7 10 3 7
55-64 57 28 29 33 18 15 24 10 14
65-74 100 68 32 58 44 14 42 24 18
75-84 111 77 34 48 38 10 63 39 24
85 AND OVER 98 68 30 27 17 10 71 51 20
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 37,321
WHITE 19,565
NONWHITE 17,756
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