1990 Annual Report of Vital Statistics Department of Health, City of New Haven
 

TABLE VII
Leading Cause of Death
by Age Categories
New Haven: 1990

Rank
Order		 Age Category
Cause of Death		 Number
of Deaths		 Age-Spec.
Death rate*
  Infants (less than 1 year)    
  All Causes 27 10.9
1 Conditions in perinatal period 14 5.7
2 Congenital Anomalies 6 2.4
3 Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions 5 2.0
4 Injury and poison 1 0.4
4 Diseases of the digestive system 1 0.4
  1-4 years old    
  All Causes 2 23.7
1 Congenital Anomalies 1 11.8
1 Infective and parasitic diseases 1 11.8
  5-14 years old    
  All Causes 5 30.4
1 Injury and poison 2 12.1
2 Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs 1 6.1
2 Diseases of the circulatory system 1 6.1
2 Infective and parasitic diseases 1 6.1
  15-24 years old    
  All Causes 16 43.3
1 Injury and poison 15 40.6
2 Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions 1 2.7
  25-44 years old    
  All Causes 127 295.4
1 Infective and parasitic diseases 46 106.9
2 Injury and poison 20 46.5
3 Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions 15 34.9
4 Diseases of the circulatory system 16 37.2
  45-64 years old    
  All Causes 179 977.5
1 Diseases of the circulatory system 73 398.7
2 Neoplasms 51 278.5
3 Infective and parasitic diseases 15 81.9
4 Diseases of the respiratory system 13 71.0
  65-84 years old    
  All Causes 562 3,985.2
1 Diseases of the circulatory system 270 1,914.6
2 Neoplasms 149 1,056.6
3 Diseases of the respiratory system 53 375.8
4 Diseases of the digestive system 21 148.9
  85 years and older    
  All Causes 306 15,572.5
1 Diseases of the circulatory system 182 9,262.1
2 Neoplasms 32 1,628.5
3 Diseases of the respiratory system 31 1,577.6
4 Diseases of the genitourinary system 14 712.5
       
* Rates for infants based per 1,000 live births. All other rates based on 100,000 population per age category.

 
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