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 DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS ROBERT A. ISRAEL, M.S., Director JOHN E. PATTERSON, Assistant Director for Demographic Affairs For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office 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] Entire United States for 1933-69; death-registration States for 1900-1932. Data by 5-year averages for 1900-1959 and by single years for 1960-69. New Jersey did not require the reporting of color or race in 1962 and 1963. |