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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS-

Rockville, Maryland: 1974

NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS

EDWARD B. PERRIN, Ph.D., Director

PHILIP S. LAWRENCE, Sc.D., Deputy Director

GAIL F. FISHER, Assistant Director for Health Statistics Development WALT R. SIMMONS. M.A., Assistant Director for Research and Scientific Development JOHN J. HANLON, M.D., Medical Advisor

JAMES E. KELLY, D.D.S., Dental Advisor
EDWARD E. MINTY, Executive Officer
ALICE HAYWOOD. Information Officer

DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS

ROBERT A. ISRAEL, M.S., Director

JOHN E. PATTERSON, Assistant Director for Demographic Affairs
ROBERT J. ARMSTRONG, M.S., Chief, Mortality Statistics Branch
ROBERT L. HEUSER. M.A.. Chief, Natality Statistics Branch
LOREN E. CHANCELLOR, Chief, Registration Methods Branch
ALICE M. HETZEL, Chief, Marriage and Divorce Statistics Branch
ARNE B. NELSON, M.A., Chief, Vital Records Survey Branch
MICHAEL J. ZUGZDA. Chief, Statistical Resources Section

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20462 - Price $11.20

VITAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969

VOLUME II- MORTALITY

A brief summary of the contents for each section is listed below for the convenience of the reader. A complete contents page is at the beginning of each section and is identified by a narrow black edge which can be located easily by fanning the pages. Each section is paged independently, using the section number as the identifying prefix.

PART A

Section 1. General Mortality

Summary tables containing crude, age-specific, and age-adjusted death rates; death rates by cause; maternal mortality; and deaths for the 50 largest standard metropolitan statistical areas. Detailed tabulations of deaths by cause for the United States and each State. Data shown by age, sex, color and race, cause of death, and month.

Section 2. Infant Mortality

Tabulations of infant deaths and infant mortality rates by age, color, sex, and cause of death, and by State and the 50 largest standard metropolitan statistical areas. Additional frequency tables by month of death and by population-size groups in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties.

Section 3. Fetal Mortality

Tabulations of numbers of deaths and ratios by color, age of mother, legitimacy status, geographic areas, and population-size groups; and fetal-death rates by plurality and sex. Numbers of deaths by additional categories-month, birth order, attendant, period of gestation, and birth weight.

Section 4. Accident Mortality

Deaths from motor vehicle accidents by type of vehicle and from nontransport accidents by place of accidents and by person injured. Data shown by cause of death, age, color, and sex for the United States and by color and sex for each State. Deaths from accidental poisoning by age, color, and sex.

Section 5. Life Tables

Abridged life tables and interpolated values of the 1, and ě, by single years of age for the national population by color and sex.

Section 6. Technical Appendix

Text discussion of factors affecting the collection, classification, and interpretation of the mortality statistics published in Volume II. Includes population tables for computing vital

rates.

PART B

Section 7. Geographic Detail for Mortality

Total number of deaths, deaths from selected causes, infant deaths, neonatal deaths, fetal deaths, and selected rates and ratios. Tabulations shown by each State and county, by specified urban places, metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties, population-size groups,

[A11 data are for deaths occurring in the United States. Excludes fetal deaths. Data for geographic areas within the United States are by place of residence unless otherwise noted]

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Entire United States for 1933-69; death-registration States for 1900-1932.
Entire United States for 1933-69; birth-registration States for 1915-32.
Deaths by place of occurrence and place of residence.

Data by 5-year averages for 1900-1959 and by single years for 1960-69.
Data by 5-year averages for 1915-39 and by single years for 1940-69.

New Jersey did not require the reporting of color or race in 1962 and 1963.

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