(HSWWDTCO)
COUNTY: DESOTO
SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF DESOTO COUNTY, 1997
--------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 617 530 87 7.0 7.1 6.4
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 166 142 24 187.4 189.1 177.9
HEART DISEASES 152 134 18 171.6 178.5 133.4
ACCIDENTS 38 30 8 42.9 40.0 59.3
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 35 33 2 39.5 44.0 14.8
HYPERTENSION 30 26 4 33.9 34.6 29.6
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 25 24 1 28.2 32.0 7.4
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 24 19 5 27.1 25.3 37.1
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 11 9 2 12.4 12.0 14.8
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 11 8 3 12.4 10.6 22.2
DIABETES MELLITUS 7 6 1 7.9 8.0 7.4
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 7 7 0 7.9 9.3 0.0
SUICIDE 7 7 0 7.9 9.3 0.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 6 5 1 6.8 6.7 7.4
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 2 1 1 1.4 0.8 4.6
HIV INFECTION 2 2 0 2.2 2.7 0.0
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 1 1 0 1.1 1.3 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 8 5 3 9.0 6.7 22.2
ALL OTHER 85 71 14 96.0 94.6 103.8
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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 617 530 87 327 271 56 290 259 31
UNDER 1 17 10 7 13 6 7 4 4 0
(NEONATAL) 8 5 3 7 4 3 1 1 0
(POSTNEONATAL) 9 5 4 6 2 4 3 3 0
1-4 3 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 1
5-9 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
10-14 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
15-24 17 13 4 13 10 3 4 3 1
25-34 13 11 2 7 5 2 6 6 0
35-44 35 25 10 21 15 6 14 10 4
45-54 42 37 5 28 26 2 14 11 3
55-64 93 80 13 56 47 9 37 33 4
65-74 126 114 12 75 68 7 51 46 5
75-84 164 149 15 82 72 10 82 77 5
85 AND OVER 105 89 16 28 20 8 77 69 8
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 88,563
WHITE 75,074
NONWHITE 13,489
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