U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS Hyattsville, Maryland: 1979 NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS DOROTHY P. RICE, Director ROBERT A. ISRAEL, Deputy Director JACOB J. FELDMAN, Ph.D., Associate Director for Analysis GAIL F. FISHER, Ph.D., Associate Director for the Cooperative Health Statistics Systems JAMES T. BAIRD, JR., Ph.D., Associate Director for International Statistics MONROE G. SIRKEN, Ph.D., Associate Director for Mathematical Statistics JAMES M. ROBEY, Ph.D., Associate Director for Program Development DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS JOHN E. PATTERSON, Director ALICE M. HETZEL, Deputy Director MARVIN C. TEMPLETON, Assistant to the Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 VITAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1975 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, month, date of death, and report of autopsy. 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 l, 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, specified urban places, metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties, population-size groups, and standard metropolitan statistical areas. Section 8. Guam, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands (U.S.) Trend of the crude death rate. Frequency tabulations for most of the characteristics shown in other [All data are for deaths occurring in the United States. Excludes fetal deaths. Data for geographic areas within the United States are by Data by place of residence exclude deaths occurring to nonresidents; however, data by place of Data for 1972 are based on a 50-percent sample of death certificates] New Jersey did not require the reporting of color or race in 1962 and 1963. 288 298 28 28 28 28 28 28 29 30 30 39 30 30 30 28 29 29 |