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COUNTY: LEAKE
SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF LEAKE 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 268 172 96 14.4 15.8 12.5
HEART DISEASES 108 78 30 581.3 715.1 391.1
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 56 35 21 301.4 320.9 273.8
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 20 14 6 107.6 128.4 78.2
ACCIDENTS 16 9 7 86.1 82.5 91.2
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 10 5 5 53.8 45.8 65.2
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 8 6 2 43.1 55.0 26.1
DIABETES MELLITUS 5 3 2 26.9 27.5 26.1
HYPERTENSION 4 1 3 21.5 9.2 39.1
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 4 2 2 21.5 18.3 26.1
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 3 2 1 16.1 18.3 13.0
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 3 2 1 16.1 18.3 13.0
SUICIDE 2 1 1 10.8 9.2 13.0
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 1 1 0 3.0 6.1 0.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 2 1 1 10.8 9.2 13.0
ALL OTHER 26 12 14 140.0 110.0 182.5
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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 268 172 96 128 71 57 140 101 39
UNDER 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
(NEONATAL) 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
(POSTNEONATAL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-4 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1
5-9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10-14 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
15-24 3 2 1 3 2 1 0 0 0
25-34 5 1 4 5 1 4 0 0 0
35-44 10 3 7 6 2 4 4 1 3
45-54 20 8 12 14 4 10 6 4 2
55-64 35 26 9 21 15 6 14 11 3
65-74 51 38 13 25 15 10 26 23 3
75-84 64 39 25 29 19 10 35 20 15
85 AND OVER 76 53 23 23 12 11 53 41 12
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1995 POPULATION:
TOTAL 18,578
WHITE 10,907
NONWHITE 7,671
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