



(HSWWDTCO)
COUNTY: LEE
SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF LEE COUNTY, 1998
--------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 671 541 130 9.0 9.5 7.4
HEART DISEASES 250 204 46 335.0 357.8 260.9
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 131 101 30 175.5 177.2 170.2
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 57 49 8 76.4 86.0 45.4
ACCIDENTS 37 29 8 49.6 50.9 45.4
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 34 30 4 45.6 52.6 22.7
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 17 16 1 22.8 28.1 5.7
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 12 7 5 16.1 12.3 28.4
DIABETES MELLITUS 8 6 2 10.7 10.5 11.3
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 7 0 7 5.8 - 18.2
SUICIDE 7 6 1 9.4 10.5 5.7
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 6 4 2 8.0 7.0 11.3
HYPERTENSION 5 3 2 6.7 5.3 11.3
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 3 3 0 4.0 5.3 -
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 3 2 1 4.0 3.5 5.7
TUBERCULOSIS 1 0 1 1.3 - 5.7
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 1 1 0 1.3 1.8 -
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 7 5 2 9.4 8.8 11.3
ALL OTHER 85 75 10 113.9 131.6 56.7
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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 1998 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 671 541 130 356 294 62 315 247 68
UNDER 1 11 2 9 5 1 4 6 1 5
(NEONATAL) 9 1 8 4 0 4 5 1 4
(POSTNEONATAL) 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
1-4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
5-9 2 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
10-14 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
15-24 15 12 3 11 10 1 4 2 2
25-34 7 5 2 5 4 1 2 1 1
35-44 33 22 11 22 15 7 11 7 4
45-54 57 49 8 38 33 5 19 16 3
55-64 74 52 22 51 38 13 23 14 9
65-74 132 109 23 90 79 11 42 30 12
75-84 169 136 33 82 67 15 87 69 18
85 AND OVER 169 150 19 50 45 5 119 105 14
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1998 POPULATION:
TOTAL 74,637
WHITE 57,008
NONWHITE 17,629
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