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DISTRICT: I

SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT I , 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                  2,348  1,485    863     9.6   10.0    9.0

HEART DISEASES                         729    460    269   298.9  310.2  281.4
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS                    517    346    171   212.0  233.3  178.9
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES               192    123     69    78.7   82.9   72.2
ACCIDENTS                              154     74     80    63.1   49.9   83.7
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD               104     87     17    42.6   58.7   17.8
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA                 91     60     31    37.3   40.4   32.4
HYPERTENSION                            48     32     16    19.7   21.6   16.7
DIABETES MELLITUS                       45     19     26    18.4   12.8   27.2
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION         34     14     20    13.9    9.4   20.9
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS     30     19     11    12.3   12.8   11.5
SUICIDE                                 27     23      4    11.1   15.5    4.2
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS     22     17      5     9.0   11.5    5.2
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES                    20     15      5     8.2   10.1    5.2
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD     18      3     15     4.5    1.4    8.1
HIV INFECTION                           12      3      9     4.9    2.0    9.4
ATHEROSCLEROSIS                          2      2      0     0.8    1.3    0.0
MATERNAL CAUSES                          2      2      0    50.0   93.5    0.0
TUBERCULOSIS                             1      1      0     0.4    0.7    0.0


--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED            25      9     16    10.2    6.1   16.7
ALL OTHER                              275    176     99   112.8  118.7  103.6
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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 PROJECTIONS.

# 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            2,348  1,485    863  1,200    747    453  1,148    738    410

UNDER 1             52     17     35     34     10     24     18      7     11
 (NEONATAL)         28     10     18     19      6     13      9      4      5
 (POSTNEONATAL)     24      7     17     15      4     11      9      3      6

1-4                 12      2     10      8      2      6      4      0      4
5-9                  6      2      4      2      0      2      4      2      2
10-14                6      1      5      4      1      3      2      0      2
15-24               53     25     28     36     15     21     17     10      7
25-34               64     26     38     35     13     22     29     13     16
35-44              116     54     62     71     30     41     45     24     21
45-54              161     87     74    101     58     43     60     29     31
55-64              280    182     98    183    125     58     97     57     40
65-74              489    317    172    262    172     90    227    145     82
75-84              604    440    164    305    225     80    299    215     84
85 AND OVER        505    332    173    159     96     63    346    236    110
UNKNOWN              0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
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MORTALITY RATES**                                        1995 POPULATION
  INFANT          13.0    7.9   18.8                       TOTAL       243,891
  NEONATAL         7.0    4.7    9.7                       WHITE       148,301
  POSTNEONATAL     6.0    3.3    9.2                       NONWHITE     95,590
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** DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS.

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