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UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS

OF THE

NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

1943

CARL V. REYNOLDS, M.D.

SECRETARY AND STATE HEALTH OFFICER

CONTENTS

Page Table I. — Total births and deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) with rate per 1,000

population for the years 1914-1943, inclusive 6

Table II. — Births (exclusive of stillbirths) in each county, by color, with rate per 1,000 population; per cent attended by physicians and number illegiti- mate, 1943 7

Table II-A. — Births (exclusive of stillbirths) in each city of 10,000 population or over in 1940, by color, with rate per 1,000 population; per cent at- tended by physicians and number illegitimate, 1943 11

Table III. — Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) for the State as a whole from each cause, by sex, color and age 1943 (includes all deaths occurring in North Carolina) 12

Table IV. — Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in each county, by color, with rate

per 1,000 population, 1943 54

Table V. — Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in each county, by cause of death

(abridged international list) and by color of decedent, 1943 58

Table VI. — -Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in cities or towns, by cause of death

(abridged international list) and by color of decedent, 1943 108

Table VII. — Death rates per 100,000 population (by place of death, also by

place of usual residence) in each county, from nine important causes, 1943 . 120

Table VIII. — Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) by cause by certain subdivisions

of the first year of life, 1943 124

Table IX. — Deaths under 1 year of age (exclusive of stillbirths), and maternal

deaths in each county with rates per 1,000 live births, 1943 126

Table X. — Gases and deaths from special diseases by month of occurence, 1943 . . 128

Table XI. ^ — -Deaths rates per 100,000 population from ten important causes, for

the State as a whole, v^ath estimated population for each year 1914-1943 . . 132

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

Raleigh, N. C. July 11, 1945 To His Excellency, R. Gregg Cherry,

Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh.

My dear Governor Cherry:

I have the honor of transmitting the report for the Bureau ol Vita) Statistics covering the calendar year 1943. With assurance of my very best respect, I am

Very sincerely,

Carl V. Reynolds, M.D.,

Secretary and State Health Officei ,

Annual Report Nineteen Forty-three

Table I. — Total Births and Deaths (Exclusive of Stillbirths) With Rate Per 1,000 Population for the Years 1914-1943 Inclusive

1914. 1915. 1916 1917. 1918. 1919. 1920. 1921. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928. 1929. 1930. 1931. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. 1938. 1939. 1940. 1941. 1942. 1943.

31.2 33.4 31.9 31.8 30.8 29.3 31.8 33.4 30.8 31.3 31.9 29.7 28.8 28.7 27.5 24.7 24.1 23.2 24.0 23.0 24.1 23.3 22.1 22.7 22.7 22.3 22.8 23.5 25.0 26.0

31,372 33,989 42,411 30,114 32,336 29,010 30,660 32,396 33,234 32,524 34,608 32,911 36,133 36,894 35,739 33,069 31,000 30,496 35,112 33,451 35,580

33,564 31,785 31,364 32,218 30,033 29,-645

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Table III. — Deaths (Exclusive of Stillbirths) for the Entire

Cause of Death

Race and Sex

All Causes (Total). Males—

I. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Males

Typhoid fever.

2. Paratyphoid fever..

6. Cerebrospinal (menengococcus) meningitis.

Whooping-cough.

10. Diphtheria.

11. Erysipelas.

Total... White... Indian.. Colored.

Total... White... Indian.. Colored.

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Female. I Male... C Male...

Female -

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Table Ill-

Cause of Death

Race and Sex

12. Tetanus.

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.

14. Tuberculosis of the meninges and central nervous system..

15. Tuberculosis of the intestines and peritoneum.

16. Tuberculosis of the vertebral column.

17. Tuberculosis of the bones and joints (except vertebral column)

19. Tuberculosis of the lymphatic system (except bronchial, mediastinal, mesenteric, and retroperitoneal lymph nodes

20. Tuberculosis of the genito-urinary system.

22. Disseminated tuberculosis.

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Table III-

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	W Male Female-... C Female... - W Male Female.... C Male ' Female.... W Male Female.... C Male C Female.... W Female.... C Male Female W Male. Female.... C Male Female C Male W Male. Female.... C Male Female.... W Male C Female.-.. Total..	15 1,010 806 201 1,488 1,042 8 438 36 19 7 9		1
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Cause of Death	Race and Sex	1 <	1 i	1	1 .2	s o
46. Cancer of the digestive organs and peritoneum	W I c w c w I c w c w I c w c w c w c w c w c w c	Male Female.... Male. Female.... Male Female.... Male Female.... Male Female.... Female.... Female.... Female.... Female.... Female..-. Male Female-... Female... - Female...- Male Male Male Female-.. Male : Female.... Male Female.... Male Female..-. Male Female.... Male Female-... Male Female.... Male Female.... Male Female.... Male Female....	341 357 3 3 107 103 87 39 11 6 226 154 40 8 4 158 3 63 118 39 40 31 5 7 36 33 4 2 34 20 82 77 13 32 13 21 3 45			2 1	1
			1
47. Cancer of the respiratory system	1	1	1
	1
				1
52. Cancer of the urinary organs (male and female)		1
		1 1
53. Cancer of the skin (except vulva and scrotum)
		1
54. Cancer of the brain and other parts of the central nervous system (including giloma, except when		5 2 1	2	1
	1 1
		2 3	1_	2
				2
56. Non-malignant tumors (including dermoid cysts)	1		1	1
			1 1

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21

Continued

2 3 "5	E	s		2	1 U5	i	1		1	1 1	S
1 1	2 3	3 3	8 4	20 19	51 53	1 1 31 23 27 9 5 2 51	101 116 2	59 63	6 16		1 1
					2 25 26 25 7 3 2 68
2	1 1 1	2 5	2 2	14 14 14 8	23 25 14 8	7 4 3 4	3 1
			2 32
		4	11 1 12 1 3	40 1 36 5 30	17	,3
	■ 1 1	1	44 15 2 42	35 4 33	16 9 31 3 10 49 10 12 11 1 11 3	8 1 1 12
2	1
		2	4	4
		1	3 1	15 4 1 3 2	15 2 8 3 6	14 22 12 9 4 2 5 4	2 30 6 10 6	!	1
1	1
	1
	1	1
	2
		1	1
			5 6 1
		1	1	3 1 1 4 1	10	1 6
J		1
				1
		1	1 ] I 2 3 5 2 3
	1	4	6 3 2	1 2
		1
1
2	5 2	3	6 9 8 2 8	16 13 2 8 1 3	18 11 4 5 3 3 1 2	10 23 1 3 1 3	12 6
2
1
	;		2
2
			2
	1 3
1		7	18	10	2	1

22

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Table Ill-

Cause of Death

57. Tumors of unspecified nature.

III. Rheumatism, Diseases of Nutrition and of the Endocrine Glands, Other General Diseases, and Avitaminoses: Males

Acute rheumatic fever.

Chronic rheumatism and other rheumatic diseases.-.

61. Diabetes raellitus

62. Diseases of the pituitary gland

63. Diseases of the thyroid and parathyroid glands

64. Diseases of the thymus gland

65. Diseases of the adrenal gland (not specified as

tuberculosis

66. Other general

W Male...

Female - C Male...

Female-

Total... White-- Indian.. Colored.

Total... White- Indian.. Colored.

W Male-.

Female- I Female. C Male...

Female.

W Male...

Female. C Male—.

Female.

W Male...

Female. I Male...

Female. C Male...

Female.

C Female-

W Male-..

Female. C Male...

Female.

W Male....

Female. C Male..-.

Female.

W Male—. Female-.

W Male--.

Female-. C Male-...

Female..

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23

Continued

i			s	i		>< s	S g	i JO	2	1 1 1
	3	2	1	2 2 1 18	4 3 2 37 29	4	2 4
1	'	1
1
	1 8 1
13	3	2 1	60 48	77 66	28 22 1 5 52 47	4 3		1
2 8	7 15 8	4 18 8	1 13 8	9 32 15 1 16 1	8 67 •34 1 32 1	12 66 1 19 2 1	11 119 100 1 18	1 14 10		^
5
3	7	10	5	5	4
3	1	1	1	1	1
2	2 4	2 3		1 2 1 1			1
2	2 2 1 1 20 17	1 3 1 41 44
	5 5 2 1 41 72
				3 1 18 32 1	1 1 1 2 7
	1
1
	1 4	3 5	1 5	4 9
2
					1 19 1 7	1 16	1 9
	3 3	1 5	1 1	6 10	5			1
	1
					1 5
	3 1	1	1	1	3	2
			4	4		3
						1
		1
1					1		1
			'
1						2
				1		1	2	1
									1

24

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				Table	II—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	1 <	1 £3	5	1 s	1 3 o
	W Male Female.... W Male Female.... I Female.... C Male Female.... C Male Female-... W Female.... Total	1 1 32 48 5 21 2 1 1 94 68 26 104 71 32 7 5 5 3 20 19 12 17 36 42 1 5 8 5 2 2 4 3 2 50 34 16	1
69 Pellagra (except alcoholic)
70. Rickets :.	1
IV. Diseases of the Blood and Blood-Formino Organs: Males	9 4 5 6 5	11 10 1 9 7	4 3 1 10 8	3
	White....	3
Females	Colored Total	6
	White	3
	Colored W Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... I Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Female.... C Male Total	1 1 2 2 1 2 3 2	2 3	2 1	1
	1 2 1
	1 2	1
74. Leukemias and aleukemias . .	1 5 4	2 6	1 1
	3
76. Diseases of the spleen ... .	1	......	1 1
	1	'
				2
76. Other diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs.		.
V. Chronic Poisoning AND Intoxication: Males
	White .
	Colored

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

25

Continued

1 3	S		>< s	1 o	E 2	to 5		2 2	i	1 1	a
						1 4 10
1				2 1 1 2	3 9	17 18	4 7	1 1
		1
				5	2 2	2 5
		2	2	2	1
				1 8 4 4 12 8
7	6 4 2 2 2	3 2 1 3 3	2 1 3 1	13 8 5 19 14	13 2 11 4 1 6	10 9 1 8 8	4 4	1 1
4
3
12 6	1 1	1	1 1
6			2	4	5 1			'
1	1	1
2
			1
	1 1			1 2 3 6 11	5 1 1 4 5 2	6 4 1	4 1
1 1	1	1 1 1 1	2 4 2 4 6		1
				1 1
2	2	1 1	3 3
		1			2 2
2				2 1
2	1	1
	2
			2
					1 1 5 2 3	1
					1 10 8 2
	3 1 2	5 3 2	5 4	16 12 4	2 2	2 1 1			1
1
			1

26

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	S	1	1	1	1
		<		2	2 to	2 o
	Total	6
	White. —	3
	Colored	3
	W Male	28
	Female....	2
	C Male Female....	15 3
	W Male
79. Chronic poisoting by other mineral or organic
substances	W Male	5
	Female....
	C Male	J
VI. Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense
Organs:
Males	Total	1,794 1,182	31 19	20	14 8	16
	White	7
		10 602
	Colored	12	11	6	9
Females	Total	1,765 1,060	28 18	21 14	7 4	11
	White	1
	Indian	4 701	9
	Colored	7	3	10
	W Male....	16	,	3	,	1
	Female....	18	3	3	1
	C Male	6	1		2
	Female.--.	10	1	2	1	2
	W Male	32	10	7	4
	Female.....	17	5	4
	I Female—.	1	J
	C Male		5	8		1
	Female..-.	12	4	1		3
82. Diseases of the spinal cord (except locomotor ataxia
and disseminated sclerosis) _	W Male	18		2		1
	Female...-	11
	C Male	4
	Female... -	3		1		1
	W Male	1,032		1		2
	Female.. .-			3
	I Male	9
	Female... -	3
	C Male	493		1		1
	Female... -	604		1	2
84. Mental diseases and deficiency (except general
	W Male	17
	Female..-.	23	1
	C Male Female.-.	28 36			2	2
		1	2

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27

Continued

1	1	1	;2	1 0 i	10	s s		1^ «5	1 B	1	1
	;	1		3 1 2 10 1 4 2			1 1
	1 3	2
	2	6	2	2	1
	2 1	1	2	3						1
			2	2
				1
							1 271 218 53 279 230 1 48
24 11	26 13	12 4	45 23	87 39	223 118 103 255 117	380 238 3 139 391 191 2 198 2 2	556 413 4 139 460 323 137	74 49 24 78 65	4 2
13 15 7	13 21 9	26 15	22 31 10	48 132 53	2 8 3
2
8 3	12 2 1 2 1	11 3	21	79 1 1	138 1	13	5	2
	3 1
	2	2	4 4
	3
		1
2 2	1		1	2	2 4 1 1	2
					3 2 1	7 4
			;	1	2 1
	3 4
2	3	13 4	29 34	105 106 2	229 178 2 2 133 192 2 3 1 5	389 305 4 132 135 4 2 2	211 219 1 51 45 1	47 65 1	2
	2 3 2	4 4	13 13 2 1 2 2	36 58 9	94 127 5 3	24 13	2 5
2 1	2
6	4 2
2	3

28

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex		1 1	2 2	>> 3 U5	2 >^ 2
	W Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... C Male Female-... W Male Female.... I Male C Male Female.... W Male Female.... C Male W Male Female.... C Male Female.... Total	24 25 33 28 5 6 4 2 23 26 1 5 4 1 2 1 14 6 6 2 3,863 2,916 20 927 2,746 1,871 12 863 4 10 7 24 32 1 8 11 186 162 1 115 108	2	1 2	3 1	2
	5
			2
	4 5 3 2 1	1 1 1
	1 1
	1
		1 1
			• 1
	2 3 2 10 7	3
	1
	1
VII. Diseases of the Circulatory System: Malea	3 2	11 4 1 6 15 9 1 5	15
	White	10
	Colored Total	3 11 9	1 7 4	S 16
	White	9
	Colored W Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... I Male C Male Female.... W Male Female.... I Male C Male Female....	2	^	7
				1
			1 1
			1
			2 1
		1	1	4
	2	3		2
			1 1	2
			1

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29

i	i 3	1 2 S5	i	2	1 5	1 S 2	1	1 2	1 2	1 0 1	1
	6 3 4 4	3 3 3	3 2 4	3" 4 9	2 3 2	2	2 2	1
3
5
2
			1	3		2 4	10 6	4 6	2
2	1	1
			1	2	2	1	1
	1
							1	1
2			1	1	1		2	1
		1 1
					1
20 16	22 10	36 20	57 33	261 165	602 425 „; 299 143 1 155	884 657 7 220 512 316 3 193 1 2 1	1,106 871 5 230 754 553 4 197 2 1 1	616 530 2 84 556 470 1 1	200 157 42 217 183 1 33	18 9	2
4 24 14	12 30 17	16 42 18	24 54 29	96 180 2 95	26 13	2 3 1
10	13	24	25	13	2
				2	1 1 1 6 1
1	1
1	3 5	2 4	2 4	6 8	2 2	2 3
2	1
	1			2 3 6 7	1 1 13 5	2 3 37 19	1 54 49 1 34 28	1 1 53 53
,
	1	2 3	5	16 14
1	1 1	1 2	3	10 11	21 17	27 24	11 16	6 3
1

30

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	1	1 i a	2 S	1 1	1 o
93. Chronic affections of the valves and endocardium..	W Male Female..- I Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... I Male...... Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... I Male Female..-. C Male Female.... W Male Female-.. C Male Female... - W Male Female.... I Male C Male Female.— W Male Female.... C Male Female.. .- W Male Female.... C Male Female.— W Male- Female.... C Male Female— W Female.... C Male W Male Female... - C Male Female-.-	753 682 6 8 281 1,193 528 6 1 159 128 572 369 4 3 257 233 5 116 50 2 59 59 26 6 17 13 7 7 3 4 7 3 5 3 15 12 10	1 2	1 1
	'	1
				1
			'	1
	1		2
		1
	5 4	__..^	4 4
	5
			3 1
96. Aneurysm (except of heart and aorta)	2 2	J	2- 3
97. Arteriosclerosis (except coronary or renal sclerosis)
98. Gangrene
100. Diseases of the veins
	1 1	1 1		^
102. High blood pressure (idiopathic)

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

31

Continued

1 2	2 i			1	1	1 2	2	S 2 JO	>< 2	1 1	a 5
4 4	1 3	1 5	2 8	23 22	65 39 1 1 41 53 249 56 3	144 99 3 2 80 67 317 120	241 198 4 79 64 349 180 2	187 193 1 27 28 151 115	78 98 1 1 17 23 24	5 7	1
	. 3 7 2	5 9 3 2	6 5 12 5	21 24 82 22	5 7	1
2	1
	2
				1 24 19 41 20
	2 3 7	5 5 10 4	5 6 17 6	44 27 33	33 32 124 62 2 1 56 45	30 29 166 101 2	11 7 97	5 1 21 34
1 7 8	3 2
				1 32 31 1 1 2 1	50 44 5
2 5	4 4	5 6 'l	12 7	60 55 1	17 15	8 9	4	1 1
				1		2
				7	19 6 17 17 6 3 3 4 1 1	43 11 17 15 10 1 2 4 3 1	30 20 10 13 6 2 4 3 2	15 le	2
					11 7	4 6 1 2 2 2
					1
				2
					2
	'		'	^	5
				I 2	2
		1		1 2	1	1 1
			1 2	1
				1
				1
1	1			2	4	3 4	1 2 2	9.	2
		1
			2 1
		1	J	3 3 ..:;::::i ii ■

32

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	S	>^	1		1
		1 <	1	S	2 in	S o
103. Other diseases of the circulatory system. .	W Male	2
	Female.... C Male Female.. .-	2 2 4			1 1
VIII. Diseases of the Respiratory System:
Males-	Total	995 577 8 410	352 176 6 170	76 40	19 13	10
	White	5
	Indian
	Colored	36	6	5
Females.	Total	959 570	316 154	72 37	14 7	12
	White	7
	Indian	JO	3	3	1
	Colored.. _	379	159	32	6	5
104. Diseases of the nasal fossae and accessory sinuses	W Male Female.... I Female...- C Male Female....	15 5 1 9 14	1 6 8	2 1	2	1
			1
	1		1
105. Diseases of the larynx	W Male	g	4	3
	Female.... C Female.... W Male Female.... C Male. Female....	3 4 26 26 8 3	3 4 7 2 4 2
106. Bronchitis	3 2 1
107. Bronchopneumonia (including capillary bronchitis)...	W Male......	218	117	12	8	2
	Female....	243	96	18	2	2
	I Male	6	6
	Female.... C Male	4 157	91	3 19
	1
	Female....	147	85	16	3	1
	W Male	198	35	13	1	2
	Female....	176	27	7	3	3
	I Male	2
	Female....	3	1
	C Male	153	30	12	4	2
	Female....	133	22	11	3	2
109 IVumcnia (unspecified)	W Male Female....	47 52	13 22	5 6
	1	1
	I Female....	1	1
	C Male	56	38	4	1
	Female....	51	36	3

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

Continued

1	2	1	1	i s.	E s s	E S		E >>	>> s	t O 1	^
								2
							1
				1
		27 9		86 49 1 36 61 30 31 2	1 95 58	83 63	1 75 70
21 14	23 15	27 10	65 26 38 57 27 2 28 2	32 25	4 4
7	8 17 10	18 14 8	17 31 18	37 68 38 1 29	20 116 88	5 98 87	7 55 47
17 8	11 4
9	7 1	6	13	28	11	8	7 1
		2
1							1
1				1	1 1	1
		1						'
2	1 1	1 2	"""'	1	3 2 1	4 2	1	3 6
	2	1
					1 11 28
3	4 1	4 1	1 5	4 7	8 7	13 9	21 40	10 26
	1
						1 7 5 20 17
		2 1 2 2	4 2 4 5	7 3 14 9 26 19 1 2	9 3 18 12 1	11 10 35 31	3 7 35 34	3 2 8 14
5 2 4	1 7 6	3 2 2
3	6 5 2	10 3 1 1	9 9 3	19 17 4 1	24 16 5 4	5 12 7 4	1 4 3	2 4 3 3
3 3	3
2
1	1	r	1	2	2 3	4 3	2 1		1
	1

34

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	<	1 1	1 S	2	2 2
1 10. Pleurisy (not specified as tuberculous)	W Male Female.... I Female.... C Male Female.... W Male..^... Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female-... C Male Female.... W Male. W Male Female.... C Male Female-... Total	3 4 7 19 25 5 8 18 24 5 10 3 21 12 10 8 838 546 10 282 694 415 7 272 27 25 17 7 4 2 85 10 1 31 14 16 7 9 9
			1
	1		2
			1
111. Hemorrhagic infarction, thrombosis, edema, and chronic congestion of the lungs
		1	1
		1 2 1
112. Asthma	2
	1
113 P'lilmnnary emphyaema
114. Other diseases of the respiratory system (except tuberculosis)
	2	1		1
	1 215 122 8 85 203 107 4 92 3 4 1 1
IX. Diseases op the DiOESTrvE System: Males	50 25	14	9
	White	7
	Indian
Females	Colored Total	25 51 31 2 18 4	9 10 5	2 20
	White	12
	Indian
115. Diseases of the buccal cavity, pharynx, tonsils, and adnexa.	Colored W Male Female.... I Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... C Female- - W Male Female- — I Male C Male Female—. W Male Female.... C Male Female....	5 2	8
	3
	2	1
116. Diseases of the esophagus	1
117. Ulcer of stomach or duodenum
118. Other diseases of the stomach (except cancer)
	2	1 1

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

35

Continued

2 3	E i	1	1 s.		1 s 2.		1 2	1	1 S o	1 1	5
					1	2 1
		1		1	1
1		1	1	1
,			1 1		1 3 2 2 3 4 2 2 2 6 1 1 3 87 57 29 64 32	3 2 1 6	4 8 3 1 6	5 6 2	3 2	1
		1
1
					'
				6 1
	1	1 1	3 2
		1
	1	1	1
	1
2			1	2 2 2 1 92 64	5 1 2 2 82 59 23 73 53 1 19 2 1	4 2	1
2
	'	2 1 26 9	2 27 20
30 16	27 15	100 81 18 79 64	49 39	20 17	1 1
14	12 18 7	17 27 11	7 24 11	28 61 35	10 38 32	3 10 7
14 7	2 1
7	11 2	16	:::::;	26 4	32 2	15 4	6 2	3	1
1
1	3 2	2		2 1 1	1 2	1	1
1
				1
				1
1	2	2	6	17	19 3 5 4 3	19 2	13 3	2
2	1	5	1	12 4 1 1 1	3 4	1 2 5 1 2
1			1		2
1			1	1 3	1 3
	1

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Table III—

119. Diarrhea, enteritis and ulceration of the intestines (under 2 years of age)

120. Diarrhea, enteritis, and ulceration of the intestines (2 years of age and over)

121. Appendieitis.

122. Hernia and intestinal obstruction.

123. Other diseases of the intestines.

124. Cirrhosis of the hver.

125. Other diseases of the liver.

128. Biliary calculi

127. Other diseases of thg gallbladder aud biliary ducts-

128. Diseases of the pancreas (except diabetes mellitus)-,

W Male- Female.

I Male... Female.

C Male... Female.

W Male...

Female - I Male...

Female. C Male...

Female.

W Male...

Female. C Male...

Female.

W Male...

Female. I Male... C Male...

Female.

W Male...

Female. C Male...

Female.

W Male...

Female. C Male...

Female-

W Male...

Female. C Male...

Female.

W Male.. Female.

W Male-.

Female C Male-.

Female

W Male-.

Female.

C Male-.

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

37

Continued

s.	><	i >>	i >< s	2	>< s 2	i	2	2	2	i	5
	2	1 1	1 1	1 4	2 3	2 3	8 14 1	5 8	3 2
1
						1 2 1 7 6 2 2 8 14
1	3 2 5 2 2 1 2				1 5 7 7 2 9	7 9 7 3 19 14	2	3 2
1 10	2 2 6 4 3 4	1 4 2 2 3	1 11 4 5 6 4 13	1
4	12 7
5
2
	8 2	1
1		8	5 2 1	7 11 1 1 1 16 4	5 12 3	5 4 2 1	3 5 2	3 1 1
1	1
				1
1	1 1	1 1	1 4
1	12 2 8 3 3	16 8 6 2	11 4 2 2 1 2 2	8 4	1
	2 1 1	1 1	2	2 1
2
1	1 1 1	1
2
		2	1	2 9	3
	1
			1	2 3	1 9 1 2	7 10	5 4 1
		1	2
1	\
		2
			3
					2	1
		2

38

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Table III-

Cause of Death	Race and Sex	S	1	1		1
		< <	1	1	0 2.	s
129 Peritonitis (cause not stated)	W Male.. .	3	1
	Female.... C Male Female....	6 2 5
			1
X. Diseases of the Gentto-Urinary System:
Males __ . .	Total... White	1,729 1,078	3 2	10 6	6 6	4
	2
	Indian	4 647
	Colored...	1	4		2
Females	Total	1,409 806	3 3	14 9	6 4	3
	White
	Indian...	5
	Colored	598		5	2	3
130. Acute nephritis	W Male	45	2	3	2	1
	Female..-.	26	1	5	1
	I Female....	1
	C Male	44	1	3
	Female..-.	37		3	1	2
131. Chronic nephritis..	W Male Female..-.	842 677		2	4 2	1
	I Male	4
	Female....	4
	C Male	523				2
	Female..-.	506			1	1
132. Nephritis unspecified (10 years of age and over)	W Male	38
Female....	31
	C Male ..	24
	Female—.	26
133. Other diseases of the kidneys and ureters (except
associated with pregnancy, childbirth, or the
puerperium)	W Male Female-...	28 32	"'2
	1
	C Male Female	14 10
134. Culculi of the urinary passages	W Male	19
	Female	13
135. Diseases of the urinary bladder	W Male	14
	Female	5
	C Male	15
	Female	1
	W Male
	C Male	5
137. Diseases of the prostate	W Male	82
	C Male	23

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

39

Continued

2 2	i	2	2 >< 3	2 CO	5	2	1 2	1 2	1 2	1	1
							1		1
	1 16 5	1	1	1		2 1
1	22 6	1 26 7	104 53	213 111
14 8	358 203 2 153 263 127 133 4	481 316 2 163 350 244 1 105 5 4	354 270	100 77	16 4	2 2
6 12 7	11 21 8	16 35 15	19 41 16	51 123 47 75 7 3 8 10 34 30	102 184 64 120 8 2	84 243 186	23 96 68	12 13 7	2 1
5 3	13 4	20 1	25 3	57 1 2	28 1 4	6	1
2
	3 1 4	5 3 3 8	4 2 3 11	5 8 84 45	5 3 167 114 2 3 130 122 11 4 7 7 5 2 2 1 5 2 2 4	4 252 219 2 101 9 9 6 3 8 8 4 2 2 4	2 225 170	1 58 62
5 2	3 7	1 1
2 2	7 7	11 11 1	12 17	39 55 1 4 1 5 5 3 1 4 3	87 102 5 2 6 7 4 3 2 5 5 1 1	73 55 6 2	19 25 4 2 2	9 5	1
1	3 1
			1
	1 1 3	1 1
	1	1
	1
		2
		1
		1
			3
				1
				6		'
			^
			2	2 3 2	2 1 9 4	2 1 34 11	28 2	2
			'
			1
					3

40

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Table III —

Cause of Death

138. Diseases of other male genital organs (not specified

as venereal)

139. Diseases of the female genital organs

XI. Diseases op Pbegnanct, Childbirth, and the Puebpehium: Females

140. Abortion with mention of infection

141. Abortion without mention of infection

142. Ectopic gestation

143. Hemorrhage of pregnancy (death before delivery)..

144. Toxemia of pregnancy (death before delivery)

145. Other diseases and accidents of pregnancy (death

before delivery)

146. Hemorrhage of childbirth and the puerperium

147. Infection during childbirth and the puerperium

148. Puerperal toxemias (excluding death before delivery).

149. Other accidents and specified conditions of childbirth.

150. Other and unspecified conditions of childbirth and the puerperium

XII. Diseases of the Skin and Cellular Tissue: Males

W Male...

W Female C Female

Total

White

Indian

Colored

White

Colored

White

Colored

White

Colored

White

White

Colored

White

Colored

White

Colored

White

Indian.

Colored

White

Indian

Colored

White _.

Colored

White

Indian

Colored

Total

White

Indian

Colored

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

41

Continued

3	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	00 s.	i 2	i	1 ^ 5
				1 4 4 84 41
	3 55 23 2 30	2 3 66 35 31 1 2 3 2 3	3 5 62 33 1 28 2 2 2	5 1 1	3	2
J
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						2
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2
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							2
11 2 8	10 4 2 3	7 4 3	6 6 5 3
	2	1	2	4
	6 5 1	2 1	3 3
					3	1

42

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	1 =3 <	1 ■f	S	1 S	(2 s
Females	Total	34 23 1 10 6 5 1 6 8 7 10 10 1 1 6 3 20 13 7 13 6 6 9 4 5 4 1 1 1 3 2 211 171 39 167 136 4 27	11 6 1 4 1	3 2
	White .
	Indian
	Colored W Male Female.... C Male W Male Female.-.. I Male. C Female.... W Male _ Female.... I Male Female.... C Male Female.. .- Total	1 1
151. Carbuncle and furuncle
152. Phlegmon and acute abscess			1
	1 1 3 7 5	1
	1
153. Other diseases of the skin and cellular tissue
	1
	1 2 1
	1
XIII. Diseases or the Bones and Organs op Movement: Males	2 1	1
	White
	Colored Total
Females—	2	2
	White	1
	Colored			1
		1 1
154. Osteomyelitis and periostitis	W Male Female.... C Male Female.... W Male Female.... C Male W Male Female.... I Female.... C Male Female.... Total	1 1
	1
		1
	1
165. Other diseases of the bones (except tuberculosis)
		1
				1
XIV. Congenital Malformations: Males	201 163 37 161 130 4 27	7 7	2	1
	White Indian Colored. - Total White Indian Colored	1
Females	6 6	2

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

43

Continued

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44

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Table III-

Cause of Death

157. Congenital malformations

XV. Diseases Peculiar to the First Year of Life

Males

Females

158. Congenital debility (cause not stated)

159. Premature birth

160. Injury at birth -

161. Other diseases peculiar to the first year of life

XVI. Senility: •

162. Senility

Males ---

Females -

W Male

Female...

I Male

Female--.

C Male-.-. Female.. -

Total

White

Indian

Colored

Total

White

Indian

Colored

W Male

Female... I Male

Female. -. C Male

Female.-.

W Male

Female...

I Male

Female...

C Male

Female...

W Male

Female...

I Male

C Male

Female...

W Male

Female

I Male

C Male

Female

Total

White

Colored

Total

White

Colored

1 4 39

27

1,126 774 14 338

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

45

Continue	d
1 2	1 i	1 i		1	1 2	1 2	1 2	2	2 2	o 1	t
						2	10 4 6 20 11 9	33 21 12 49 40 9	34 26 8 52 38 14	4 3 18 4 14
						2 2 1 1

46

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Table III —

Cause of Death	Race and Sex	1	1 1	1 S	1	2
XVII. Violent OR Accidental Deaths: Males	Total White	2,125 1,536 19 570 695 507 4 184 15 13 163 38 3 16 51 10 3 83 9 7 2 i 12 3 1 11 5 99 26 12 2 451 111 1 141 21	89 47 2 40 68 35	87 61	59 41	68
	Indian
Females.	Colored.. Total	26 57 36	18 42 32 1 9	19 23
	White..
	Indian ... .
	Colored W Male Female— C Female.... W Male Female.... I Male C Male Female.— W Male Female.... I Male C Male Female-.. W Male Female.... I Female.... C Male Female-.. W Male Female-.. I Male- C Male Female.... W Male Female-- C Male Female.. - W Male Female.... I Male Female.... C Male Female.-.	33	21	5
164. Suicide by other means.
				1
Ififi, HnmiriHe hy firparms. .
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47

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48

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Table Ill-

Cause of Death

171. Streetcar and other road-transport accidents..

172. Water-transport accidents

173. Air-transport accidents

174. Accidents in mines and quarries

175. Agricultural and forestry accidents

176. Other accidents involving machinery

177. Food poisoning

178. Accidental absorption of poisonous gas.

179. Acute accidental poisoning by solids or liquids

180. Conflagration ,-.

181. Accidental burns (except conflagration)

182. Accidental mechanical suffocation

Male... Female. Male...

Male... Male...

Male... Female. Male...

Male...

Male- Male... Female.

Male... Male... Male... Female

Male... Female Male... Female

Male... Female

Male... Female. Male... Female

Male... Female Male... Female

Male... Female. Male... Female.

Male... Female Male.-. Male... Female.

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

49

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50

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Table Ill-

Cause of Death

183. Accidental drowning.

184. Accidental injury by firearms-

185. Accidental injury by cutting or piercing instruments

186. Accidental injury by fall or crushing

187. Cataclysm (all deaths attributed to a cataclysm

regardless of their nature)

188. Injury by animals (not specified as venomous or

occurring in the course of agricultural or forestry operations)-.

190. Excessive cold

191. Excessive heat

192. Lightning

193. Accidents due to electric currents (except lightning).

194. Pokoning by venomous aminals (not occurring in the course of agricultural and forestry operations) —

W Male...

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Female.

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Female.

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W Male...

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W Male...

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W Male...

Female

C Male...

W Male...

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Female

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51

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52

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				Table III—
Cause of Death	Race and Sex	1 =3	1 1	-* S	1 en
195. Other accidents .	W Male Female— C Male Female— W Male I Male Female— C Male Female.-. Total	43 14 18 9 3 1 8 1 456 240 12 204 367 188 8 171 61 34 1 1 23 23 179 154 11 7 181 148	8 6 4 6	5 3	1	3
		1
198. Legal executions.
XVIII. Ill-Defined and Unknown Causes: Males	182 81 10 91 145 67 5 73 10 2	11	6 2	1
	White	1
	Indian
Females.	Colored Total	5 16 9	4 5 1	1
	White	1
	Indian...
199. Sudden death	Colored W Male- Female-.. I Male Female.... C Male. Female.... W Male Female.... I Male Female.... C Male...... Female....	3 1	4
	6 6 71 65 10 5 85 67
200. Ill-defined and unknown causes..	8 8	2 1	1
	1
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Table V. — Deaths (Exclusive of Stillbirths) in Each County, By Cause of

Cause of Death

Place

of Death

Place of Res.

of Death

Place of

All causes^Total recorded

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers- Plague

Scarlet fever

Whooping-cough

Diphtheria

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.

AJl other forms of tuberculosis

Malaria -

Syphilis

Influenza

Smallpox

Measles.-

Typhus fever

Dysentery

Other infectious and parasitic diseases

Cancer and other malignant tumors

Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature. . .

Chronic rheumatism and gout

Diabetes mellitus _-_

Chronic or acute alcoholism

Pellagra

Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the

blood and chronic poisonings

Meningitis (non-meningococcal) and diseases of the

spinal cord

Intracranial lesions of vascular origin

Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs —

Diseases of the heart

Other diseases of the circulatory system

Bronchitis .•

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia

Other diseases of the respiratory system

Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)

Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)

Appendicitis

Cirrhosis of the liver .

Other diseases of the biliary system

Other diseases of the digestive system

Nephritis

Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems

Puerperal infection

Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of

movement _.. .-

Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth,

and diseases peculiar to the first year of life

Senihty, old age.

Suicide

Homicide ._

Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles) . Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide,

and automobile accidents excepted)

Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified —

245

80 1,941 203 4,487 271 50 925 153 219

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

59

Death (Abridged International List) Also by Color of Decedent — 1943

	Alamance			Alexander			Alleghany
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
260	307	78	94	41	56	6	10	39	47	1	1
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1									21
29	7 1	8 2 17 2	9	10	4	5	6 1 5	6 2 6			?.?,
2			?„3
76	'	8	1	1			?4
7			?.!}
								?6
8	10 3 1	4	5	2	5			5	I			?7
2					?R
1	2	3								9q
	1	1							?<)
			1 1							?n
1	2 1 4 32 1										31
									31
3			1 4	2 4							31?
	10	10			1	1			33
2					34
	1 2 1 3	1 2 1 2 1									35
1	3									36
	1 4	6							^7
29	34 2							38
1							39
					2 2	2 1 3 1			40
		1 3 4 3	1 3 5 4							41
2	1 12 1							4?
12	4	5					43
1	'	'	'			44

60

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Table V-

		Anson
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	99	104	96
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers .
2. Plague
		1
	1
5. Diphtheria
	5	5	4	8
'7. AH other forms of tuberculosis . -
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis			1	2
10. Influenza .
11. Smallpox
12. Measles- -.
13. Typhus fever... . .
14. Dysentery... .			1 3 10	1
14. Other infectious and parasitic diseases			3
15. Cancer and other malignant tumors	11	13	10
16. Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature
17. Chronic rheumatism and gout
18. Diabetes mellitus .	2	2	4	4
19. Chronic or acute alcohohsm
20. PeUagra		1
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic poisonings
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord			n	1
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	16	16	13
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs	1
24. Diseases of the heart	25	25 1	18	18
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system
26. Bronchitis
	5	5 1	2	2
28. Other diseases of the respiratory system	2
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)	2
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)	;	1 1 1
30. Appendicitis
31 Cirrhosis of the liver	1	1
31. Other diseases of the biliary system
32. Other diseases of the digestive system	12	11 1	10 1	2
33. Nephritis	9
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium	2	1	3	2
38. Congenital malformations and debiUty, premature birth, and diseases	5	3	4	4
39. Senility, old age
40. Suicide	'	1
41. Homicide
	5 3	2 7 3	2	1
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	3
	12

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61

Continued

	Ashe			Avery			Beaufort
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	c.
111	124	4	4	104	109	3	3	247	222	159	156	1
												2
												3
				1	1			2	2	1	1
						-)
3	4			3	3	1	'	2	2	5 2	8 1 1 3	fi
			7
								9
3	3			1	1			8	7	10
					11
												1?
												13
				1 5	7							14
						3 25	26	2 7 3	5 2 1	14
12	12					15
					16
										17
								4	2	18
	1							19
							2	2 24 38 10			20
					1 5 2 18 3			1 1 20 5 17	1 1 19 9 17 3	20
				5 19 2			21
9	11 4 14 3 9 2 1 1	1	1			23 4 40 3 1 12 3	n
3			23
14					94
					'>'>
J					?6
9			4 5 4	3 5 4			15 2 2	14 2 2	97
2					28
1					29
					2 3 1 3 3 13 6 2 4 29 6 2 7 13 15	25 4 2 6 8 15	29
			2	2			2	1	30
						31
								1 5 19 3 2 17 2 2	5 18 2 14 2 1 1	31
				6 12	6			32
10	10 4	1	1			33
3			34
							35
1	1 2 9 4 1 1 4 3 19				•			3fi
2							37
9			20	20			38
4					39
			1	'			40
1					41
3							42
			5 5	8 5	!	1 1	5 10	10	43
18	2	2	44

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Table V-

	Bertie
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Co	Col.
All causes — Total recorded	97	100 1	149	160
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2. Plague.
3. Scarlet fever
4. Whooping-cough			5 6	5
5 Diphtheria
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	2	3	g
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis _			2	4
10. Influenza -
12. Measles
		1	2 3 6 1 1
	10 2 2	11 1 2 2
	^
19. Chronic or acute alcoholism	1	1
20. PeUagra -
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic poisonings . --	1	12 1	3	3
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	12 1 24	15	15
23 Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
24. Diseases of the heart	16 2	16
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system	4
26 Bronchitis
	5	6	13 1 3	14
	2
29 Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)		3
		1
		1	1
			1
	2 9 1 1	2 10 1 1	2	1
33. Nephritis ..	11
	1
	3
	2
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	6 2 2 1 5 8	6 2 1 4	4	11
	4
40. Suicide . ._
	6 15 15	5
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	15
	15

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63

Continued

Bladen	Brunswick	Buncombe
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
82	120	3	5	97	110	79	97	50	70	1,034 1	817	273	225	1
													?.
														3
										6 189 8	6 1 43			4
								1 3	1 3			5
J	2		1	1	3			70 2	21 1	6
			7
				1 2 4	1 2 4					8
						2	3 2	2 12	4 12	4 6	6 5	9
J	2					10
										1	1			12
												13
														14
							1 5			106	11 91 1	23	1 22 1	14
4	4 1			2	3	5	3	4	15
			16
							1	1		17
				2	2			16 2 2 18 4 70 U 249 8 1 36 3 13 8 8 4 21 52 13 4 3 59 5 10 3 16 47 12	14 1 18 4 67 11 236 8 33 4 12 2 6 4 16 45 8 4 2 54 5 8 5 17 45	2 2	2	18
						19
J	2 2				1			20
1				2 2 14 5 16 3		1	3	2	2	?0
			14 2 14
11	14		1	9 1 24	10 1 25 2	3 1 1 1 4 1 2	4 12 1 1 5	1 44 1 15 1	25 2 47 1 13	22 23
17	22 4 9 2 3			24
			25
			26
3			3 1	4	7	9	27
2			28
				1	29
					29
	1			1	1					2 3	2 3	30
				1			31
1	1 3 16 2								31
					14	3 14 3	9	1 12 1	1 29 2 1 2	1 29 2 2	32
15			17	17	33
			34
				1	35
		1	1		1	1		36
				37
	13 3	2	2	10	10	5	11		5 2 1 9 1 8 4	5 3 1 9 2 9 5	38
2			39
					1				40
	1 4 5 3								41
			2 13	2 3 12	7	3 5 1	1 4	3 5	42
9			4
3			44

64

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Table V-

		Burke
Cause of Death	Place Deith	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	380	205	29
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers . - - - -
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
4. Whooping-cough
6. Diphtheria	1 4 1	1 2
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	1	2
7. All other forms of tuberculosis
8 Malaria
9 SyphiUs	20 1	2	1	1
10 Influenza
11 Smallpox
12 Measles
13 Typhus fever
14 Dysentery	3 3 23	1 1 19
	2	3
	3	4
20. Pellagra . ---	1 3 2 30 29 115 12	1 4 3 17 3 61 5
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1
	3	3
	7
	1
26. Bronchitis -
27 Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia	26 2 1	14 1 1	1	1
	2	1 3
31. Cirrhosis of the liver
31 Other diseases of the bihary system
32 Other diseases of the digestive system	3 24	2 17 4
33 Nephritis	6	5
	11 3 3 6 42	2
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement 38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases
11
39. Senility, old age
40 Suicide
41. Homicide	7 14 1	1 3 2	1
	2
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	2

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65

Continued

Cabarrus	Caldwell	Camden
Place	Pkce of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
282	305	71	76	188	216	31	33	27	25	21	27	1
												2
												3
	2			1 1 4	1 6 1					'	'	4
							5
3	4 1		2			2 1	2 1	'	'	fi
		7
								8
	1 1	1 1										9
J	2	7	7							in
							11
												12
												13
	1 5 3,	1 1 1	1									14
4 26	1 9	10	1	1				1 2	14
3	3	2	l.'i
		16
										17
5	4	1	1	2 1 1 2 35 2 36 3 12 3 2 1	3 1 1 2 37 2 40 5 12 2 3 2 1	1 4	1 4	1	1	1	1	18 19
J	1 37 3 59 3							20
	1	1		1					i^O
					21
34 2 58 3	13	13 1 12 1	1 6 1	3 2 6	5	4	2	2	22 23
4	3	5	5	24 25
					26
15	18 5 2 1 2 3 8 35 2	3	4	3	3	1	'	2	2	27 28
5					3	3	29
				29
1								1	30
2 2 10 32					2	1		31
								31
3 10	3 10	4 5 2 1 14	6 5 4 1 1 1 17							32
1	1 1	3	4	1	2	33 34
J						35
	2	2	1 1	'				1	36
				37
32	31	5	5	1	2	1	1	38 39
	3 2 6 13 14							1	1	40
	1 1 6 5	2 6 5	6	8		1	1	1	41
7 9 15			4?.
3 3	3 3	3	2	1	1 1	43 44

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Table V—

		Carteret
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded	162	142	31	34
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
		1
5. Diphtheria
	4	8	3	6
8. Malaria
9, Syphilis				J
	1	1
11. Smallpox
12. Measles
13. Typhus fever...
14. Dysentery	1 2 10 2	1 1 12 2
	1 1	J
	J
17. Chronic rheumatism and gout
	1	1
19. Chronic or acute alcoholism
20. PeUagra .	^	'
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic poisonings—	1 1 5
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord	15	15	J
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	5
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
24. Diseases of the heart	34	33	5	5
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system
26. Bronchitis
27 Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia	5	5		1
	2 1 1 1 1 1 20 1	2 1 2 1 1 2 19 2	2	2
31 Other diseases of the biliary system
	1 3	1
33. Nephritis	3
	1 1 6 5
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement 38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	1 10 1 3
4	4
40. Suicide
	7 35	6 9
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	2 2
	2

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67

Continued

Caswell	Catawba	Chatham
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col. 62
55	78	61 1	1	282	300	54	59	101.	130	52	1
										2
				3	3 5 1							3
		1	1							4
								5
	3	7	6	3	1	3			1	2	A
			7
											8
						1 4	1 4	1 4	1 4	1	1	9
.	1	1	1	8	7	10
			11
												12
												18
	1 10											14
			1 11	2 17			ll	2 15			14
10	3 1	3 1	2	2	3	4	15 16
		1 4	1 5							17
			1			1	1	1	'	18
					19
										^	^	20
3	3	.	3	1 3 31 3 83	1 2 30 3 87	1	1	3	3 1 10 30	7,0
1 4 1 14	1 4	21
12	14	10	10 1 8 6	9 9 2	10 1 10 2	9 26 1	22 23
10 6	11 7	8 6	24 ^5
		2fi
	1	6	6	17 2 7 1 1 8 23 2	17 1 8 2 1 1 8 25 2	2 1 1 1	2	6	8	2	3 1	27 28
1	3	1 1	1 1	1	2	29 9.9
				1	30
	1	1				31
					1 4 6			31
	2 7 2	2	3	7	J	3 12 3			32
4	5	5	33 34
					1	1 2 1 4 2	35
			1 4 1	3 1 30 2	2 29 4					36
	2	4 1					37
	2	2 2	6 3	9 3	4 2	38 39 40
					1 1 1 4	1 1 4				41
2 1	4 2	5	2	7 8 14	7 9 14	1 4 4	3 5 4	6	1 3 6	42 43 44

Annual Report Nineteen Forty-three

Table V-

	Cherokee
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.
All causes — Total recorded .	144	132		3	4	4
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
S. Diphtheria	1 2	1 3
			1
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis		1 4
	4
11 SmaUpox.l
12 Measles
13.. Typhus fever
14. Dysentery	1	1
15. Cancer and other mahgnant tumors . . . ...	10 1	11 1 1 1				J
17. Chronic rheumatism and gout .
		1
20. Pellagra.	1 2 1 4	1 3
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood and chronic poisonings
21. Meningitis (non-meningococcal) and diseases of the
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	4 1 28
24. Diseases of the heart	29
26. Bronchitis
	11	10
28. Other diseases of the respiratory system
	9 1 3	6 1 1		1
31. Cirrhosis of the hver .
	2 3 14 3	2 13 4
			1	1
35. Puerperal infection		1
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases peculiar to the first year of life	21	17			1	1
	2 I 5	2 1 4 3 6
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide.			1
	1

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69

Contin lied

Chowan	Clay	Cleveland
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death.	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
52	61	44	50	32	41	1	1	232	266	63	68
								1	I
5	5	1	2					3	3	4	6
		1	;
		2	2			6	6	1	'
									1 1 18 1
	1 7	4	4	1 2	1 4			1 15 1
7	1	1	4	4
J	1 1
				1			6 2 34 3 62 3 1 4 1 1	7 6 2 37 3 68 3 3 4 1 1
		1	1
2	2					2	2
	J	7
7	7	6	6			6 14 1	6 3 14
9	9 2	12 1	12 2	2	3
	2	1	1	6 1 3 1	7 2 3 1			3	3
J	2	1	1			'	'
.
					'	1
	1	1
	•
			;	;			7 23	8 24	3 6	3 6
3	3	2	3
							2 2 13	2 2 2 14	1 1	■
			1
	2
	4 1	5	2	3			7	7
	2					2	2 1 10 16 3
							2 2 3 1	2 2
	1 8 2							4 14 3
	3 1	3 1	1 3	2 3
2
	'

70

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			Columbus
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded	223	232	2	4	136	156
2- Plague :
3 Scarlet fever
					1
5' Diphtheria
	3	5			3	y
8- Malaria.					1 5
9- Syphilis
	5	5		1
11- Smallpox
12- Measles
13- Typhus fever . . . . .
14- Dysentery .						J
	1 14 1	1 16			1 4	2
16- Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature
17- Chronic rheumatism and gout..
18- Diabetes mellitus...	2	3			1	1
19. Chronic or acute alcohoHsm
20. Pellagra...
20- Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood and chronic poisonings	5	4			=	3
21. Meningitis (non-meningococcal) and diseases of the
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	31	31			16	18
			2
24 Diseases of the heart	36 3	38 4			13	15
			3
	6 2	10 1 \ 1	1	1	14 2 5 1	14
	2
			5
			1
	4 27	3 33 1			1 20	1
33. Nephritis..			21
			1
35. Puerperal infection..
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium	30 2 1 2 14 9	3 1 27 2 ] 2 12 9 7			2	2
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth,			12 3	12
			3
40. Suicide
41. Homicide	1	1	2 3 3 19	3 2
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide.			4
			19

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71

Continued

Craven	Cumberland	Currituck
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
171	136	228	233	560	374	13	8	253	219	39	43	22	2S
														?.
														3
		4	4						1					4
1											5
	2	14 2	18	12 1	7			17 3	17	1	3	2	2	6
J			7
									8
	3	6 4	4					7 7	4					9
3	7	8			1	1	2	2	10
			11
						1								12
													13
		1	2	1 5 53 3 1 6 2 3 4 48 113 21 2 41 10	2 3 31 5 1 6 1 2 2 44 3 79 11 28 9 6									14
3	1 10			5 15 1 1 1	3			2	2	14
11	10	11	1	1	1	5 1	15 16
								17
g	6	1	1					1	1	18
					19
		2 2 31 22	2 2 31 4 19 2									m
2	1 2 6 25 5 2			3 2 26 32 9	1 2 25 4 31 9			1	■	20
					21
6	1	1	4 15	3 2 15	4 5	5 6	22 23
21 2	5	1	24 25
							26
4	19	18	1	1	16 1	17	2	3			27
2
	8 1 1	8 1 1	1	1						29
2	2 2						29
3	1 9 3 21 22 13				2	1				1	30
	3 3 18 3						31
J	4 15 2											31
7	11 30 5	9 31 5			9 25 2 3 4 1 22	9 25 2 4					32
15	1	1	1 1	2	1	1	33 34
1					35
1	2	7	5	1 3 48 1 8 5 19 51	1 43 1 3							36
	^	2					37
14	15	21	21	21	1	2	1	1	38
			39
3	3											40
	3 13 3	3 5 13 3			8 8 13 8	5 5 5 7					41
47	5 15	12 17 8	'		4	2 3	1 1	1	42 43
			44

72

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Table V—

		Dare
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded	50	54	1	3
2 Plague
3 Scarlet fever
4 Whooping-cough	2	2
5 Diphtheria
6 Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	3	4
7 All other forms of tuberculosis
8 Malaria
9 Syphilis
10 Influenza	1	1
11 Smallpox
12 Measles
13 Typhus fever
		5
	2
18 Diabetes mellitus		1
20. Pellagra ... -- -
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1	2
	7	9
	5 1	6
	2	2
	1 1 1 1	3 2 2 1 1
33 Nephritis		1
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases		;	1	1
	1 1
40. Suicide
	2 10 7
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	7		1
44 Causes of death ill-defined unknown or unspecified

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Davidson	Davie		Dupl	n
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
274	317 1	51	57	76	105	11	18	141	175	118	139
											9
1	2 1 4											3
2	1	1	1	1			2	2	2	2	4
1			5
2	2	2				1	2	4	2 1	7 1	fi
				7
					1					s
	1					1	1	1 2	1 3	3	9
	2	2	5	5		in
1	1							1	1			n
									13
									1			14
				1 6	10				4	1	14
24	28 2	3	6	1	1	12	16	15 16
									17
8	10							1	2		1	18
	1	1					19
1	1 5 2 47 3 75 5 2 20 3 1									?n
4							2	27 3 49 3			90
1				1 16 14 2			16	1 18	91
44 1	9	8	12	3 2	4 2 3 1	25 48 2	22 93
2 2	10 1 1 6 1 1	11 1 1 6 1 r 1 1	8 1	23 2	24	24 25 ?6
16		2			1	15 1 2	9	9	27
3			?8
	2	2			5	5 1 3 1	?9
			1	99
	1			1	1	30
1	1	2	1	1	1	31
6	7 21 4	1 6	1 6 I	28	30				2 21 1	1 22	32
19 2	3	4	9 1	11 2	33 34
					35
1	1 1 35 2 1 1 4 13 2				1				2 1 10 6 2 4	5	1 1 1
							37
35	2	2	7	9			7	38
2			39
1			1	1			40
1					2 7 6	1 5 9 6
4	3	1 3	1	2			4 4	42
10			43
2			44

74

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Table V-

Cause of Death

All causes — Total recorded

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers -

2. Plague.

Place

of Death

Place of Res.

Place

of Death

Scarlet fever

Whooping-cough _ _

Diphtheria

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.

All other forms of tuberculosis

Malaria. _

Syphilis ---

Influenza

Smallpox-

Measles

Typhus fever

Dysentery

Other infectious and parasitic diseases

Cancer and other malignant tumors

Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature.

Chronic rheumatism and gout

Diabetes meUitus

Chronic or acute alcoholism

20. Pellagra.

Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic

poisonings -

Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord

Intracranial lesions of vascular origin

Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs.

Diseases of the heart

Other diseases of the circulatory system

Bronchitis -

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia

Other diseases of the respiratory system

Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)

Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)..

Appendicitis

Cirrhosis of the hver.

Other diseases of the biliary system

Other diseases of the digestive system..

Nephritis .__ _

Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems

Puerperal infection

Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium

Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement — Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases

pecuhar to. the first year of life.

Senility, old age

Suicide...

Homicide

Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)

Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile

accidents excepted )

Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified

5	3
26	8
53	34
18	4
7	2
3

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

75

Continued

Edgecombe	Forsyth	Franklin
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
136	158	215	250	770	613	1		458	482	91	125	98	115	I
				1	1									3
						2 1 38 12	2 1 41
				2 18 6	2 16 2
3	4	18 2	24 1				1	1	3
2	1	5 4	8 4					10 8	17			3	4
1	10	«
			4 10 1 1 5 2 1 1 1 32 5 38 6 2 9 1 1 6 1	2 9 7	2 6 69 2
2	2 14	2 9 2 2 2 1			5 35 4	5 32 4	V	2 14	1 6	1 1
12
5	5 1 2	17 1 70 8 218 21 4 32 9 6 3 5 17 44 21 1 6 59 4 3 1 13 28	11 1 1 9 61 6 190 1 23 5 5			10 1 3 8 2 47 5 98 6	10 1 3 8 2 48 8 99 11	3	3
2
					1	1 1	?n
2				1	?0
			?i
12	14 2 32 6 2 8 1 3	30 36 5 10 1 5 2			3 26 1	18 3 29	6 19 1 1 5 2	7 2 20 1 5 2	99
2			'3
30 4	1		24 ?5
1			9.^
8			29 7 1 3 1 1 14 41 5 1 4	30 7 2 3 1 1 14 42 5 4 25 3 6 S 4	3	4 1 1	V
			?8
3			?q
			9q
1	;	4 4 4 41 8			30
1						31
							31
	1 20 5	2 24 1	27			1 18 1	2 21 3	23 1 1	3 23 1 2	32
19			3,3
			34
1			35
	6 3 14 2 5 6	1 14 1 3 5 12 6	6 2 47 4 4 9 28 3					36
						37
11	12 2 2 6 5 1			25 3 7 5 3	4 1	6 2	13	13	38
2			39
					40
1					41
2			1 1 5	2 5 5			42
3			3 5	4 5	43
2			44

76

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Table V-

Place

of Death

Place

of Res.

Place

of Death

All causes — Total recorded

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. Plague

Scarlet fever

Whooping-cough . . _

Diphtheria

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.

All other forms of tuberculosis

Malaria

Syphilis

Influenza

Smallpox.-

Measles

Typhus fever

Dysentery .

Other infectious and parasitic diseases

Cancer and other malignant tumors

Non-mahgnant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature

Chronic rheumatism and gout

Diabetes mellitus.

Chronic or acute alcoholism

Pellagra

Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic

poisonings

Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord

Intracranial lesions of vascular origin

Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs

Diseases of the heart

Other diseases of the circulatory system

Bronchitis

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia

Other diseases of the respiratory system

Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)

Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)

Appendicitis

Cirrhosis of the liver..

Other diseases of the biliary system

Other diseases of the digestive system

Nephritis

Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems

Puerperal infection

Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium

Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement

Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases

pecuhar to the first year of life

Senility, old age

Suicide

Homicide

Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)

Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile

accidents excepted)

Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified

5
4
42	43
7
124	136
3
9	11
3
10	10
6
1
3	10
20	24
3
1
5
4
40	50
4
2
4
12	17

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

77

Continued	'
Gates	Graham	GranviUe
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	White	White	Col.	Col.
36	51	51	56	20	23	126	117	117 1	118 1
										3
										4
						1 2				5
2	2	4	5		1	5	5 2	8
		7
						S
	1	1	1					1	2	9
			2	2	10
								2	2	13
								14
						2 5 1	8	1 9 1	1 10 1	14
	3	1	1	2	1	15
	16
		1			17
				4 2 3 9	4 2 3 7	1	1	18
						2	2
		1	1	1		20 21
		1 1
10	10	7 1 13 4	7 2 13 4	2	18 1 16 1	18 1 21 1	12 2 16 2	12 2 16 2	22 23 24
8	11 1	3	4
			26
2	4	5	5			3 1 1 2	3 2 1 2	5 2 1	5 2 1	27
			28
		1	1			29
						1	1	30 43 44
	»
					1 5 15 2
		1	1 1			4 14	3 23	3 24 1
		1
1	2
						1	1	1	1
5 1	8 1	4	4	3 1	4 1	9 4 4	4 1	5 2 1 3 2 6 4	4 2 3 4 4
2	4 1			2 3 2	2 3 3	6 4	2
4 1	2 4	2 4

78

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		•	Table V—
	Greene
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	19	35	43	55
2. Plague
5. Diphtheria .
	1	1	4	6
9. Syphilis			1'
10. Influenza
11. Smallpox
12 Measles
13 Typhus fever
14. Dysentery
		\
		2	2
20 Pellagra	2
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic
	3	4	3	4
24 Diseases of the heart -	2	7 2	9	10
		1	1 1 2	2
		1
	'	1	2
	1	1
		2 4 1	11 1	3
	2	13
	J
			1 1	2
			1
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	2	4 1	1
40 Suicide
		1 2
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	1	4 1	3
	1

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

79

Continued

Guilford		Hahfax		Harnett
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.
891	878	377	389	153	172	218	255	196 1	230	1	2	87	94	1
													2
														3
2	2 1 22					1						2	1
2						1	1 6
19	36 3	35 3	9	12	22	28			3	4	6
			7
											8
3	9 16	5 8	7 8			4	6 1							9
18	2	2	4	4			2	2	10
			11
														U
1	1 5 9 86 5							1						n
5	2 31 3 5	1 1 29 3 5
9	2 11	11	10	1 12 1	14 2 1	17 2 1				6	14
85			5	15
2			16
							17
18	18	3	3 1 1 1 1 14 2 38 2	1	2					18
		1					19
6	6 5 4 94 10 248 8 2 26 7 2 3 3 3 2 18 74 5			1 16 1	20 3 33 4	2 22 5 35 8						'>n
5	2 31 4 64 6 1 18 5 2	6 2 31 7 10 1 19 5 2	4 1 15 41 3	4 18 3 48 3					20
6					21
8	1	1	8	8 2 17	22
243		1	17	24
				26
31	8 2 1 1 2	7 2 3	9 3 3	^3	14 3 1	14 1 4 1			10	10	27
12			28
			3	2	29
			29
	5 6 12 52 4 3 5 2 23 2	2 5 1 11 53 4 3 5 23 2	3	1	34 24 14					30
	3 30 2	3 1 4 34 2 2					31
18	3 18	2 25	33 1			12 1	3 12 1 1 1 1 8 2	32
77			33
			34
			35
	2 4 72 8 21 4 20 43 10	2	2	2 2 21 2 3 3 3 7 14			38
	1 25 4	1 25 4			37
76	9 3 4 5 17	10 3 2 4 15 2			8 2
23
	4 8 11 7	4 10 13 7					2 2 2 4	2 2 3 4	41
21	7 1	15 8 1			42
46			43
			44

80

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Table V—

	Haywood
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes — Total recorded	212 1	236 1	15	14
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
	4 1 2	4 1
7. All other forms of tuberculosis
8. Malaria .
		1 3	1
	3
11. Smallpox -
	1	1
13. Typhus fever -
14 Dysentery . -
	1 24	1 28
16 Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature. . - .
18 Diabetes mellitus	5	6	1	J
20 Pellagra	4 4	4 4
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic
	15 3 57 2	17 3 61 2
	8	8
	16 3	20 3 2	2 1 1	2
	1
SI rirrhcaio nf thp liver		1
	1 7 14 1
	8 16 2
38. Congenital malformations and debihty, premature birth, and diseases	18 3	19 3
	5 6 7	4 9 7
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

81

Continued

Henderson	Hertford	Hoke
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death Col.	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.
218	198	28	21	46	59	94	113	65	41	8	»	169	78	1
														2
														3
														4
1	2													5
2	3	2	1	2	5 1	6	37	3	2		103 3	4	6 7
										8
						1 2	2 2					1 1	2 1	9
	8						1			10
							11
														12
														13
2	2 1 22 3							1	1					14
				1 9							14
20 4	1	1	8	5	6	1	3	1	1	'	3	15 16
			1	1								17
	2	1	1	1	1					'	1	18
							19
1	1 1 21 2 46 13			'	1 7 2 15							8	1 2 1 9 9 5	20
	1	1	1	1					?0
2	1 4 2 8	1 5 2 8 1			21
23	6 6 1	S 1 3	7 1 15	15 1 13 1	16 2 15 1			22
		!^3
53 2	1	1	11 4	24 ?5
						?fi
			3	3	6	7 1 2			'	1	8	8	27
				1 1	28
1			'	\	2	1	1	1 1	2	29
			«9
	3	1	1								30
											31
					1									31
g	5 21 5	3	1 3					3				1 7 1	32
26 3	3	8	15	16 2	2			5	33
		34
								35
	1					1	1							36
											37
15	15			2	2	12 2	15 2	3	3 1	1	2	8	9	38
	1	1	39
					40
						2 2 3 2	2 3 6					1 1 2 6	1 2 6	41
7	5 9 2	1 1 1	1	1 1	1 1	2	1 3 1		1	42 43
2	'	1	44

82

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Table V-

		Hyde
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded	30	42	21	23
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2. Plague -
5 Diphtheria
6 Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	3	4	1	1
8. Malaria -
9 Syphilis				1
	1	'
12. Measles -
	4	6	1	1
	2
20 Pellagra ^ --
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1	1
	6 1 6 1	5 1 6 3	5	5
	1	1
26 Bronchitis - -- -
	1	3	4	4
			1	1
30 Appendicitis
31 Cirrhosis of the liver
32 Other diseases of the digestive system
	1	2	2	2
		2
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases			1 1	2
39 Senility old age	1 1	1 1	1
40 Suicide
		4 1
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile		2 2	2
	1	2

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

83

Continued

IredeU	Jaclcson	Johnston
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
357	295	121	115	110	111	6	10	6	6	256	335	109 1	128	]
												2
														3
J	5 7	1 4 1	2 5 1	2 1 1	2					1	1 1 5
8 5							5 6 7
				5	6 2	11 2
	1	1
2	5	4	4 5	1	1	1	1				1 3
			4	4	3
											1 1 4 30 5 3 3			13
										1 2 28 5 3 3			14
3	2 34	1 7	1							6	1 6	14
37	13 1	12 1			1	1	15
			16
						'	1 1	17
	8	5 1	■ 5	1	1					18
J	7 2 34 5 83 4 19							2	1 4 1 37 3 78 1 14 5 3 2	2	1 2	20
	3	1	3	3
2					21
38 6	9 1 17 2	9 1 3	5 17	2 17	1 1	1 2	1	1	32 2 70 4	11 23 1 11	12 2 24 4 11	22 23
92 3	1	'	24
		1 9 2					■Jfi
23	9	6	9 3	1	3			7 3	97
			o^
3	2 4							3	4	29
	2	2							29
6	3	2								30
1								'	1	'	31
								1	1		31
5	2 23 4	3 17	3 17	2 14 1 1 1 1 1	2 14 2 8 3 1			1 12 2	7 20 5			32
32			1	1	9	10	33
4			34
	2 2	2 1					3'i
J						2	5		1	36
					37
21	14	5	5	1	1			17 3	27 1 4 1 20 14	6 1	6	38
			39
8	7	3 4 7	1 2 4 7					40
							41
7	7 8 5	3 6 7	1 8 7					16 14 13	4 2 15	3 2 15	42
13		1			43
5			44

84

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Table V-

	Jones
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded..	33	45	25	27
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
5. Diphtheria
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	1	2	3	4
8. Malaria
9. SyphiUs ..			1
10. Influenza
11. SmaUpox
12. Measles
13. Typhus fever			1
	1	1
14. Other infectious and parasitic diseases
	2	2	3
16. Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature
17. Chronic rheumatism and gout _
18. Diabetes melhtus			1	1
19. Chronic or acute alcoholism
20. PeUagra
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic poisonings- -
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	2 1 11	2 14	4 1 2	4
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs	1
24. Diseases of the heart	1
26. Bronchitis
27. Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia	2	3	1	1
29 Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)	1	1	1	1
29 Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)
		1 5	2	2
33 Nephritis	3	2
		1
		1	1
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	1	2	2	2
39 SeniHty old age
40 Suicide	1 1	1 1 2
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile
	4	5	1	J

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

85

Continued

Lee	Lenoir	Lincoln
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
98	83	54	53	238	202	187	202	154	153	27	30	1
												2
				1								3
							1	1 1			4
				3	]					5
		1	2	18 2	27 2			6
				1	1	7
						R
		2	2	1	1	4 1	4					9
		2	2			10
						11
												12
							1					13
				3 14 1					1	1 1	14
		1 4	2 3	12	6	6			14
12	13	20 2	17 3	1	15 16
								17
	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	5	3			18
			19
				1 2 4 16 4 44 1 2 13 2	3 2 3 14 1 39 3 2 10 2			2 5 1 16 1 30 1	2 4 16			?0
2	2	2	2	6 2 24 24 1	6 2 26 2			20
	3	1 3	?1
11	9 23	5 13	4 4 12	22 23
25	31	5	5	24 ?5
						■ ?6
8	6 2	2	2	14 1 7 4 1	13 1 4 1		1	3	3	27 ?8
	2	2	3 1	4 1	1	1	9q
1	1	3 4	2 3	9Q
	1	1			30
1				^1
1					1 20 1	1 4 13 3	1 5 14 3			^1
2 10	2 9	3	2	10 28 8 2 5 32 2 5 2 7 7 2	6 28 5 2 4	9 22 1	2 2	2 2	32 33 34
			1 1	1 1	35
		2	2	3	1	1 3 16 1	1 3 16 1 2	36
		37
8	7	4	4	24 2 6 2 6 2	15	15			38
		39
	1 1 3	1 4 1	3			40
	4 3 5 5	4 4 5	2	1 3 1	41
5 5	4	6 4 8	42 43 44

86

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Table V-

		McDoweU
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	PI... of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	161	157	15
2. Plague .
3. Scarlet fever
	2	2
	4	5
7. All other forms of tuberculosis- , _ _
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis	2	2
11. Smallpox.. . ..
12. Measles - _ .		1
13* Typhus fever
14 Dysentery
14. Other infectious and parasitic diseases -		14
15 Cancer and other malignant tumors	15
18 Diabetes mcllitus	3	2
20. Pellagra	1 4 2 9 1 32 2 3 11 2 6	1 3 1 34 2 3 9 3 6
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1	1
	4	4
	2
26. Bronchitis
		J
30. Appendicitis
	3	3
31. Other diseases of the biliary system	1	J
33 Nephritis	9	9 15	4	5
35 Puerperal infection	1	1
37. Diseases of the .skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement 38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	2 15 3	'	1
39 Senility old age	1	1
40 Suicide
	4 17	4 14
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	1	^
44. Causes of death iU-defined, unknown or unspecified

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

87

Continued

	Macon			Madison			Martin
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
109	109	5	.	117	145	6	8	82	99	74	79	1
												2
						.						3
	1									1	1
			3	1 4					5
4	4 1	2	3			1	2	8	10	g
1	1	1	7
					1	1 1 4	1
					1 2
3	3			2			3	4	4	10
								1	1			12
										13
1												14
		1	1	13	1 14			2 3	3 4	2 9 1	2 2	14
	13 2		1	15 16
2
								17
3	3			5	6			2	3			18
				1	1 15 3 26 1 11 3
2	1						1
			1 14 1 27				7 10	1 7 10
12	11					14	14	22
					23
15	15 9 2 2	1	'			21	23	24
			?,S
					1 6	1 7	3	2 4	26
7	1	'	9 1 1 2	1	1	27
					1	oq
2	2						1		1
1			1
										31
5	5 13 3			9	2 12 1				1 9	4	3 4	32
12			2	2	8	33
3			34
									35
				2 2 2	3 10 2 1				1			3fi
									37
7	7			1 1	1 1	2 1 2	3 1 2	3 1	2	38
			39
1
						1	2 2 2 7	2 2 7
1				4	4 3 7		2 5	2 8 5
6	8 2					43
2			7

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Table V—

Cause of Death

Mecklenburg

Place

of Death

Place of Res.

Place

of Death

All causes — Total recorded

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. Plague

Scarlet fevter

Whooping-cough

Diphtheria

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.

All other forms of tuberculosis

Malaria

Syphilis

Influenza

Smallpox

Measles

Typhus fever

Dysentery

Other infectious and parasitic diseases ,._.

Cancer and other mahgnant tumors

Non-mahgnant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature.-

Chronic rheumatism and gout

Diabetes mellitus

Chronic or acute alcoholism

PeUagra

Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronii

poisonings

Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord

Intracranial lesions of vascular origin

Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs

Diseases of the heart

Other diseases of the circulatory system

Bronchitis

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia

Other diseases of the respiratory system

Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)

Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over) _._

Appendicitis _ _ -

Cirrhosis of the h ver

Other diseases of the biUary system

Other diseases of the digestive system

Nephritis

Other diseases of the urmary and genital systems

Puerperal infection

Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium

Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement.. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases

peculiar to the first year of life

Senihty, old age.. _._

Suicide

Homicide

Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)

Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile

accidents excepted)

Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified..."

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Continued

Mitchell	Montgomery	Moore
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
,3	95	1		64	90	26	28	164	153	65	66
												2
												3
J	1 2
			1	1			3	4	3 1	1
					2	1	1 1	'	1		'
4	4			2
								1	1
	1 1 12
1			1 4	3 6			1 19
10					15 1	4 1	5 1
1					1			7	5	2	2
3	3			1	1							?0
				1 12 1 38 3	9 42 4	2 5 8	1 2 4 8	20
								21
	6			13	15	4 8	4 9	22
			23
	18			20	23 1	24
J			25
								26
4	6			4	6	3	3	12 2 6	11 2	8 1 2	8 1	27
J	1				;			29
J			1			?<)
							30
J	1								1	31
									'	31
J	2 8				6 1	"" r	;	3 14	3 12	2 8	2 5	32
6	1		3 1	33 34
								35
								2	1			36
3	4 7 3									37
			6 2	6 3	1	1	12 3 lo' 3	14 1 1 3 8 3	2 2 4 2 3 1	1 2 3 2 1 3
			39
					40
				1	1	41
					-1 6 3	42
4	4 8			1 3	3	3	43
S			44

90

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Table V —

		Nash
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	269 1	223 1	261
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers	J
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
5. Diphtheria
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system. -	3	7	14	20
7. All other forms of tuberculosis
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis	2 2	3 3	7 2	g
10. Influenza	2
11. SmaUpox...,
12. Measles
13. Typhus fever
	1 2 22	1 1 14
	3 14	1
	12
	4	3	8
20. Pellagra ..	2 * 2 1 27 5 57 1 1 11 3 3	2 1 1 21 50 3
20. Avitarainosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	8 2 21 3 35 2
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	18
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs	4
24. Diseases of the heart	33
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system.
26. Bronchitis
27. Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia	8 1	12 3 6 2 7	12
28. Other diseases of the respiratory system	2
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)	5
	2
30. Api*ndicitis	5 4 3 33 8	1 1 32 5
31. Cirrhosis of the liver
31. Other diseases of the biliary system
32. Other diseases of the digestive system	10 6 4 13 1 25 4	7
33. Nephritis	20
	2
35. Puerperal infection..	2
	32 2 7 5 14 2	1 24 3 1 4 14	7
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement 38. Congenital malformations and debiUty, premature birth, and diseases	21
	4
40 Suicide
41. Homicide.	3 7 10 2	1
	4
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	7
	2

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Continued

Northampto

Place

of Res.

Place

of Death

Place of Res.

Place

of Death

Place

of Res.

Place

of Death

Place of Res.

Col. 114

Place

of Death

Place

of Res.

Place

of Death

92

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	Orange
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	76	118	44
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers .. - - _ ._
2. Plague -.-
3 Scarlet fever .
4. Whooping-cough - .- - . .
5. Diphtheria
	3	4	3
7 All other forms of tuberculosis	1
8 Malaria
9 Syphilis
10 Influenza		'
11 Smallpox
12 Measles
13 Typhus fever
14 Dysentery
14 Other infectious and parasitic diseases	2 5	3 7	4	1
	5
18 Diabetes meUitus	1 1	1 1	1	J
20. Pellagra. __.	•
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic		2 1 13 1 27 2
	10	6 9	7
	4
	24
	2
	6	13	2	5
	2	2
30. Appendicitis		1		2
	1 2 11	1 3 12 2 1 1 1 7
32 Other diseases of the digestive system	5	1
33 Nephritis	6
36 Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium			J
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases peculiar to the first year of life	2	3	7
40 Suicide	1 1 1 2 1	2 2 2 4 1
41. Homicide
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile accidents e,Ncepted)	5 4	6
	4

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93

Continued

Pamlico	Pasquotank	Pender
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
50	60	33	34	126	120	119	125	63	77	75	96	1
												2
												3
				1	1							4
	1									5
			3	5	10 4	16 3	1	1	3	6	6
				7
1	1									S
					4 3	4 3	1	;			q
				1	1	3	4	in
												1!?
												13
										3	1	14
					1 10					14
5	7	2 1	2 1	12	6 3	8 3	2	5	15 16
				1 1	1 4			17
				3	3	1				18
						19
								1	1 1			9.0
	1			1	1	1	2			20
					'?.\
9	10	6	6	5	5	10		9	9	13	15	22 23
18	21 1	4 1	4 1	35 2	37 2	26	1	19 1	12 2	14 4	24 25 26
3	3	6	6	5 1 3 1 1	5	7		2 1	3 2	4	6 1 1	27
1	1	1	1	3 1	6		29 2q
	1			4	3					an
				1	1	1	31
						3 6 3			31
	1 4			2 14 2	3 13 2	2 3	2 5	6	1 7	32
4	2	2	33 34
	1 1				1 2 1 1	35
	1 1 3	1 3	3	3	1				5	36
	3	5 1	37
4 1	5 1	11	8	6		38 39
			2 1 1 16	3 1 12	40
					3	3	41
					3	4?
4		1 4	1 4	4 9	6 10	43 44

94

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Table V-

	Perquimans
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded	61	62	1	1		44
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2 Plague
3 Scarlet fever
5 Diphtheria
		1			4	4
				1
8 Malaria .
9 Syphilis					3 1	3
					1
	1	1
	8	9			2 1	2
16 Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature			1
18 Diabetes mellitus					2	2
20 Pellagra
20 Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the	2	2				1
21. Meningitis (non-meningococcal) and diseases of the
	6	6			2	2
	26 1	27 1			8 2	9
			2
	1	1	1	1	2	2
	1
	1	1				1
	;	1
33 Nephritis			4	5
37 Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of
38 Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth.					2	g
	1	1
	2 8 2	3 3 2			,2	1
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide.			2
44. Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified			1

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

95

Continued

Person	Pitt	Polk
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
105	129	25	38	208	231	204	242	92	80	13	12
											2
												3
						2	2	2	2
1	1 5			2	6
		4	14 3	28 4	4	4
					\
	3	2	3	2 5	2 6	4 3	5 3	J
3
				1	1
				2	2
1	2 14			5 17	5 23	9 1	8 1
10			9	"	2	1
4	4	1	1	10	12	1	1	1		1	1
										20
		^	1	3 27 34	3 30 4 37 1	2	1			20
	2 13 2 34	28	30 1 55 5			21
13	2	2	2 22	8 2 20	'	1	22 23
32	4	5	54 4	4	3	24 25
								2fi
5	6	3	3	13	13	10 6	10 6	5	5			27
			28
2	4	2				29
			1	2 1 2 3 15				29
J			2					30
J	1						31
			2 4 12 2	5 20 2 6	1 5 22 8					31
1	4 9	6 1	1 1	6 1	6 2			3?
9	;	1 1	33 34
J	1	35
			2	2
								37
6	10 1 2	1	2	14	16	17 1 I 3 4 10 12	19 1 4 6 9 11	7 1 8	5 1 5	1 1	1 2	38 39
2			1 1 5	11	40
			1	1	41
4	5 5			42
3	2	5			43
			44

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Table V-

		Randolph
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes — Total recorded _	m	309	9	15
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever .	1 3 2 4	3 3 '5
4. Whooping-cough _
5. Diphtheria
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.	1	3
7. AU other forms of tuberculosis
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis	2 12	3 13
10. Influenza
12. Measles	1	1
	4 38	3 41 1 1 6
15. Cancer and other malignant tumors	1	2
	1 5
18. Diabetes meUitus
19. Chronic or acute alcohohsm
20. Pellagra	4 4 34	4 4 1 39 5 60 4 2 14 5 4 2
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord..
	3
24. Diseases of the heart	57 4 1 12 4 4	3
26. Bronchitis
27. Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia _
28. Other diseases of the respiratory system
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over),..
30. Appendicitis
31. Cirrhosis of the liver ....
31. Other diseases of the biliary system ..
32. Other diseases of the digestive system	4 23 2 2 15 5	5 25 6 1 2 1 17 5 2
33. Nephritis .
34. Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems
35. Puerperal infection
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases pecuhar to the first year of life	I
39. Senihty, old age
40. Suicide
41. Homicide
42. Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)	9 4	4 12 4		1
43. Other \iolent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile
44. Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified

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97

Richmond	Robeson	Rockingham
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.		i^	|5
White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	W.	w.	C.	c.
209	207	1		129	143	383	310	138	138	272	278	256	288	115	123
															2
1	1															3
									2	2			2 2	2 1 4	4
				1 2 1	5 1						1 4 2	5
2	3			3	6	3	4	6 1	'\	3 1	6
			7
				1						R
1	2 6			1 2	3		1	1	1 5	2 5	1 3	2 3	4	5 2
6			2	1	10
			11
1	1											1	1			12
		\											13
										3 12	3 1 12 1					14
3	15			8	9	2 23	2 25			33 2 5 1 2 2	1 34 1 5 1 2			14
14			9	9	11 2	10 2	15
			16
2	2 8 2									17
5			1	1	6	5	3	3	1		'	1
1			19
					2	1 2	1 2	1 2	2 32 3 50 3	2 1 2 32 4 49 3	20
3	4 1 20			2	2	3 1 15 22 2	2 1 16 3 20 3	20
			f]
21			11	2 34 2	34 2 58 3 16 3 4 2 2 10 28 4 3 6	29 2 61 3	8	7	29 2 70 3	28 5 81	*>?
			9^
45 1	51 1 12	1		31 1	20	20	24
2			ItB
14			9 2 7	10 2 7 2	13 3 ! 1 2 1 10 28 5 5 22 3 3 12 33 21	9 2 8 2	2 8 2	18 3 10 2	18 6 10 2 1	9 3 1 1 1 1 6 14 2 31	10 1 3 2 1 4 16 3 2 1 31	7 3 2 11 1 1	1 3 1 1 3 12 1	27
			28 29
5	5 1 1 1
			29
1			30
1							31
			1 3 17 1 1 2	1 2 19 2
2	19 2			3 7	3 7	31 1 1 17	31 1 1 1 1 17
17
1			34
					35
	2			2 20	2 19	36
			37
13	15 1 2 7 11 4			6	6	23 3 1 3 15 98 21	5 3	5 4 1 2 3 7	38
1			39
2			1 1 2 5 7	3 2 4 7	3 4 2 8 19	4 10 19	2	3
3			5 5 15 30	4 5 15 31	41
12			12 5	10 15	3
25
4
			'l
7

98

Annual Report Nineteen Forty-three

Table V —

	Rowan
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	376	407	128	139
2. Plague...,
3. Scarlet fever
	1	3
5. Diphtheria _.
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system _	5	5	7 1	11
7. All other forms of tuberculosis	1
8. Malaria	1 2 12
9. Syphilis	5 12	4
10. Influenza
11. SmaUpox
12. Measles.
13. Typhus fever .
14. Dysentery . .
14. Other infectious and parasitic diseases .	2 58 3	1 56 3	9	1
15. Cancer and other malignant tumors	10
16. Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature .	1
17. Chronic rheumatism and gout
18. Diabetes mellitus	7 1 2 2 2 42 2 97 2 1 8 5 1 3 3 3	9 1 2 5 1 43 3 102 2 2 9 5 3 2 2	2	2
19. Chronic or acute alcoholism
20. PeUagra
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic		2
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord
	18	18
23 Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
24 Diseases of the heart	27	26
	4
	10 2	11
	;
	6 10 1 3 2 3 1
	9 3 1 1 37 4	8 4 44 7
33. Nephritis	10
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement 38. Congenital malformations and- debility , premature birth, and diseases
40. Suicide
	2 3 6 3
42. Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles) 43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	10 8	6 15 3

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

Rutherford	Sampson	Scotland
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res. c	I.	3 ' P_ I.	C.	P C.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White
225	236	39	43	153	200 1		1	110	131	151	94	3	4	97	06	1
															2
																3
	1 10							1	1							4
1													5
8	1	2 1	4	5			10	16 5	1	2	1		2 1	5 1	fi
			7
							1 1					8
	2 3	1	2									3	4	9
3	1	1 1							10
												11
											1			12
													13
																14
				2 10	2 13			1 8	8	1 3 1	1 4 1			1 2	3 2	14
	16 2	4 1	4 1					15
2					16
									17
5	5 1 3	1	1	5	5			3	3	'				1 2	2 2	18
						19
			1 24 1 50 2 1 3 2 3	2 2 24 2 57 3 12 2 4 1					1	1 1			20
	1	1			1	1					20
							21
22	21 6 4 2 13 2 2 1 2	5 5	5 2 5 1			15	16	15 31 1	16 1 31 3	1	1	16	15	M
5			23
58 4		1	19 4	5		1	25 3	25 4	24 25
					26
	4	4			■ 8 4 1	8 6	5	5 1			9	10	27
					28
1					1	1	6	6	29
1							29
1												30
3				1											31
														31
2	4 31 2	3	3	2 14	5 18 3			1 11	10	1 3	2 4			2 3	3 3	32
31			33
					34
										1	1	35
5	6	1	1							1	2			36
					1 10	1					37
15	16	4	4	13 1 2	16			9	9			7	7	38
					39
2	2 1 5 6 5			2 3 8 4					2 3 9 58 3	2 1 2 3					40
1					1	2 1					41
5	3 1	1	5 4					. 3 . 4 . 4	5 4 4	42
6			7			43
5			44

100

Annual Report Nineteen Forty-three

Table V —

	Stanly
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Rea.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
AU causes— Total recorded	199	213 1	30	33
1 . Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
4. Whooping-cough	1		1	I
6. Diphtheria
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system..	4	5	1	1
7. All other forms of tuberculosis .
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis		2		1
10. Influenza	2
11. Smallpox
12. Measles .
13. Typhus fever
14. Dysentery	1 4 21	4 23 2
14. Other infectious and parasitic diseases	2
15. Cancer and other malignant tumors-.
16. Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature
18. Diabetes mellitus	8 3	9
20. PeUagra
20. Avitaminosis, other general dise^es, diseases of the blood, and chronic	2 1 22 1 40 5 1 7 1 2 1 1	1 22 2 44 6 1 7 1 2 1 1 1	1
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	4	5
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs.
24. Diseases of the heart	8
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system
26. Bronchitis _
27. Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia	2	2
28. Other diseases of the respiratory system...
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)..
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)
30. Appendicitis...
31. Cirrhosis of the liver
31. Other diseases of the biliary system
32. Other diseases of the digestive system	3 11 1	6 11 1
33. Nephritis..	2	2
34. Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems
35. Puerperal iirfection
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium	1	1 1 25 2 2 10 2 7
37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases peculiar to the first year of life...	28 3 2 2 9 3 7
39. Senility, old age
40. Suicide
41. Homicide...	4 1 3	4
42. Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile accidents excepted)
44. Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified.	3

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

101

Continued

Stokes	Surry	Swain
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Ind.	Ind.
91	121	13	14	293	299	30	33	37	52	22	16
												2
												3
1	1			2 1 8	2 12 2			1 2 1	1			4
							5
2	4 1	2	1			4	4	fi
			7
									8
										q
4	4			6	5			2	2			10
.				1	1							12
										13
												14
				25	2 26			1 1	1 2			14
12	14 2		1	2	2			15
1			16
											17
				5	3					1		18
								19
1	1 1					1	1			20
			5 2 30 5 61 14	6 2 30 6 67 2 1 15 3 1	1	1			?.o
					1	1	21
13	14			2 1 5	2 2 5 1	1	1	n
					?3
21 1	24 2 1 5	3	4	7	11	1	3 1	24 ?5
			■Jfi
3			6 1	5 1	1	2	2		97
			?8
1	2 2			7 2 2	1	1	>		29
2					29
						2			30
									31
				1 12 18 1	2 10 17 4							31
1	4 15	;	1				2 2			3?
12	3	4	2	1	1	33 34
1	1							1		35
			1	1 1 29 6 4 6 7 14	2	2	1	1	36
1	10 2					37
6	2	^	34 4 9 10 14	■ 4	4	6	7	5	5	38 39
2							40
	1	1	1	2				41
2	2 7		2 5 3	1 1	1	42
3	2	2	1 1	1 1	5 3	43 44

102

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			Table V—
	Transylvania
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded....	84	92	5	5
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
4. Whooping-cough _
S. Diphtheria _	1	1
6. Tu berculosis of the respiratory system
7. All other forms of tuberculosis
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis..
10. Influenza	1	1
11. Smallpox
12. Measles
13, Typhus fever
14. Dysentery	1	1
14. Other infectious and parasitic diseases
1 5. Cancer and other malignant tumors	7	8
16. Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature .
17. Chronic rheumatism and gout
18. Diabetes mellitus- _
19. Chronic or acute alcoholism
20. Pellagra .
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic poisonings...		1 15 2 17
21. Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord	1 16 16
22. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	1	J
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
24. Diseases of the heart
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system
26. Bronchitis
27. Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia	«	9
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)	2	2
30. Appendicitis...
31. Cirrhosisof the hver...		1	1	1
31. Other diseases of the biliary system
		2
33. Nephritis	4
34. Other diseases of the urinary and genital svstems
35. Puerperal infection.
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
37. Di.seases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of locomotion	1 11	11
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases peculiar to the first year of life	2	2
39. Senilitv, old age...
40. Suicide
41. Homicide	2 3	2 3 2 9
42. Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile accidents excepted)
44. Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified	9	1	1

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

103

Continued

Tyrrell	Union	Vance
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
36	30	15	17	209	229	92	90	130 1	128	131	133	1
										?
												3
				1	1			1				4
				1 4 2	1 3 2				5
1	1	1	2	4	5	3	4	5 1	7	6 7
						8
					1 5					5 4	5 4	q
		1	1	5	7	7	4	4	10
		11
1	1											li^
											13
			1	1 11	1 1 14 3	1 2 4	1 2 4				1	14
1			9	ll		14
1	1			8	6	15
			16
								17
				6 1 2 2	7	1	1	2	2	2	2	18
				19
				1 3			1 2	2	;^o
1						16 32	1 2 16 31 4	20
1						^1
2	1 1 1 1	1	1	18 2 54 3 1 9	20 4 60 4 1	16 10 1	16 9	2 14 1	7 14 3	22
'	3	2	24 25
			?6
2	2	4	4	4 1 2	4 2	4 2	4	15 9	15 9	27 28
				3 2	1	29
				29
1	'			1	1	1	1	30
			31
					4 28 4 2							31
				2 29 4 1 3	1 14	1 14	3 17 1	2 16	3 24	2 25	32
16	16	3	* 3	33 34
				2 2	2 2				35
1						2	2 4 2	3fi
						37
1 1	1 1		1	20 3 3 3 8 3	21 3 2 1 4 9 4	4 2	7 2	14 3 2 2 2 1	14 1 3 1 2	5 1	38 39
			40
		'	1	3 3 2 2	2 2 2	1 2 10 4	1 11	41
1		42
		1	1	43
3	2	44

104

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Table V-

			Wake
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.
All causes — Total recorded	704	537	3		376 1	371
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers	1
2 Plague
3 Scarlet fever
	1	1
			1 22 3	1
	20	1			30
7 All other forms of tuberculosis			3
8 Malaria
9 Syphilis	7 3	4 2			8 5	8
			4
12. Measles.— - .
13 Typhus fever	1	'
			4 39 3	1
	4 75 4 2 8 2	2 66 4 2 8			3
			38
16. Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature			3
			5	5
				2 4 2 37 5 69 8	2
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the	5	5 1 51 1 144 18			2
21. Meningitis (non-meningococcal) and diseases of the			3
	54 15 171 42			37
23. Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs 24 Diseases of the heart			7
		73
25 Other diseases of the circulatory system	3		8
26 Bronchitis
	29 6	23 3			20 4 3 3	19
			3
			2
	2				1
30 Appendicitis	2 3 10 56 6			2
31 Cirrhosis of the liver	10 95
31 Other diseases of the biliary system			49 2 5
32 Other diseases of the digestive system			7
33. Nephritis-.			48
			4
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium 37. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of	51 2 30 32 5	2 4 49 2 4 1 26 20 6			5
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth.			17 2	19
39. Senility, old age 40 Suicide			2
41. Homicide .			9 2 24	8
			5
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide.			15
44. Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified.

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

105

Continued

Warren	Washington	Watauga
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res. Col.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.
48	71	135 1	146	48	62	60	68	74	85	I	1
										2
								1	1			3
	4	3	3			1	1			4
J							5
1	5 1	5 1			1	1					6
							7
		1 1	1	4 1 1	4 2					8
	1	1 2	2 2					9
	I	1			10
				11
												12
												13
												14
		1 10	2 10	5	6	2	1 4	1 1	1 11			14
4	7 1			15
			16
									17
		1	1	1	1			1	2			18
						19
												20
		2	2		1 6			1	1			20
						21
4	5	11 4 17 1 1 2 3	11 4 1 1 3 3 2	4	8 1	8 2 9	9 20	7 2 19			22
7	9 2	9	12			24
			25
									26
2	3	3	3	6	6	3	3			27
			28
1	1 1 2	3	3	1	1	1 1	1			29
			29
1							30
			1	1			>	1	31
						4 6	1 4 6	31
		3 30	5 31 1	8 1	2 7 3	2 5	6			32
16	17			33
			34
									35
			1				1	1 6 1	6 1 1			36
								37
4	8	11 3	11 3	2	3	8	9			38
			39
1	1 2 1 2 2	2	2					40
1	2 11	2 12	1 4 2	1 6 2			41
	2 3 1	2 4 2	4 3	2 7 4			42
2			43
2			44

106

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Table V-

Place

of Death

Place of Res.

Place

of Death

All causes — Total recorded

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.

2. Plagu

Scarlet fever.. _ .

Whooping-cough

Diphtheria

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system .

All other forms of tuberculosis

Malaria

Syphilis

Influenza

Smallpox

Measles

Typhus fever

Dysentery

Other infectious and parasitic diseases

Cancer and other mahgnant tumors

Non-malignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature- Chronic rheumatism and gout

Diabetes mellitus.

Chronic or acute alcoholism

Pellagra _

Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic

poisonings

Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the spinal cord

Intracranial lesions of vascular origin

Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs

Diseases of the heart

Other diseases of the circulatory system

Bronchitis.

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia

Other diseases of the respiratory system

Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)

Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)

Appendicitis

Cirrhosis of the liver

Other diseases of the biliary system

Other diseases of the digestive system

Nephritis

Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems

Puerperal infection

Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium

Diseases of the slim, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of movement

Congenital malformations and debihty, premature birth, and diseases

pecuhar to the first year of Hfe

SenHity, old age

Suicide

Homicide 1

Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)

Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile accidents excepted)

Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

107

Continued

Wilkes	Wilson	Yadkin	Yancey
Place	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	°5 1°	h	1l	'3
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	W.	w.	C.	C.
276	298	19	21	271	233	255	22,	79	120	6	8	70	90		7	I
															9
	3			3 1 19	3
					2	2 2
4	6 1			12	57 3	29 2			5	5 6			6
1						6	7
								8
	9					2 1	4 1	1	1							9
9	1	1	5	3			4	4			10
					11
	1			2	2 1	1	1					1	1			1?
									13
	2 18 4 1 1 4													14
			4 20	3 20	12 4 2 4	1 13 3 4	6	12			2 4	2 5			14
16	2	2					15
					16
													17
	1	1	4	3	1	2			1	1			18
			19
	1	1 1			1 1	1									?n
3	3 2 49 4	27 1 47	1	4	2	2	5	5 8		--	20 ?1
28	29 4 57			8 29 4	8 2	8 24 1	3 32 1	2	2	8 2 4	?^
3			23
55	2	2	1	[			24
			25
	23 7 3 3 3 1 1 7 26 2							26
23	4	5	4 2 4	5 2 2 1 2 3 28 3	15	15	3 2	3			3 1	4 1 1		1	?7
			?8
3			5 2	5 2					■^9
3					29
2											30
			2 35 4						1	1	....		31
1					16	1 3 18 1			31
6			6 46 5	6 44 5							■^9
25			'	1	8 2 1	8 3 1			33
2					34
	1	1					35
2	2			3	5							36
	1 2 2	2 2											37
25	29 11 4 2 6 14	30	28	21	20 2	3 2	9 2			1 1	7 2
					39
	8	7	2					40
2									41
6			6	5 7	4 7 7	5 7	3 1	3 5			1 3 5	1 8 5			4?
12				1			43
9	2	2	8 8			44

108

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Table VI. — Deaths (Exclusive of Stillbirths) in Cities or Towns, by Cause

Cause of Death

Total

Place

of Death

Place

of Res.

Place

of Death

Place

of Res.

Place

of Death

AH causes — Total recorded

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers

Plague

Scarlet fever

Whooping-cough

Diphtheria-.

Tuberculosis of the respiratory system.

All other forms of tuberculosis

Malaria

Syphilis.

Influenza

Smallpox

4,149 2

Typhus fever

Dysentery

Other infectious and parasitic diseases

Cancer and other malignant tumors.

Non-mahgnant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature. . .

Chronic rheumatism and gout

Diabetes mellitus

Chronic or acute alcohohsm

Pellagra

Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the

blood and chronic poisonings

Meningitis (nonmeningococcal) and diseases of the

spinal cord

Intracranial lesions of vascular origin

Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs

Diseases of the heart

Other diseases of the circulatory system

Bronchitis

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia

Other diseases of the respiratory system

Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)

Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over)

Appendicitis..

Cirrhosis of the liver

Other diseases of the biliary system

Other diseases of the digestive system

Nephritis

Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems

Puerperal infection

Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones, and organs of

movement

Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth,

and diseases peculiar to the first year of life

Senility, old age

Suicide

Homicide

Automobile accidents (all motor driven road vehicles)

Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide,

and automobile accidents excepted)

Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecified

11	4
62	31
657	429
28	19
4	4
138	93
9	3
7	7

34 523

75

1,448

114

23 297

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

109

OF Death (Abridged International List) Also by Color	OF Decedent — 1943
AsheviUe	Burlington	Charlotte
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
572 1	391	191	200	59	77	13	12	749	513	442	440	1
								2 1 2 5 2	1
6	5 23 2							2	2	4
1				1 2 1
40	16	21 1	2 1			12 1	1 1	23 1
			s
	3 3	4 5	6 4	1 1				5	6 5	3	8 7	g
6	1			10
										2	2
												14
3	5 40 1	1 21 1	1 21 1					6 85 6 2 15	2 54 3 2 10	3 33 4	3 31 3
62	5	9	1	1	15 16
12	5 1 1 9 1 35 7 110 5	2 2	2 2	1	2			3	3	18
2
						4 2 86 2 59 6	4 4 2 85 4 56 5
15	2	2		1 2 7 1 14 3			14 57 11 200 2 39 14 6 1 10 4 30 30 22 2 5 5 82	5 1 46 159 6 1 24 5 5 5 4 2 16 21 8
4			21 22 23 24 25 26
42 7	26 37	23 2 41	6 15	2	2
142 5	3	3
1
25	18 4 2 4 3 9 16 5 2 2 24 2 5 3 21 3	12	12					63 10 3 6 4 1 9 41 4	57 3 8 3 4 3 1 10 39 4
	1	2			28 29 29 30 31 31 32 33 34 35 35 37
7			1	1
7	2 2	1 2
7
4
17	24 1 1 2	24 1	1 7	1 9
22 10	3	2
4	2	1	^			52	5 1 34	4 24
3	1	■
49	5 2 S 7 4	4 3 1 7 2 7 5	12 1	12 2
2			39
6			9 1 26 5	8 16 21	...
2			1	1	19 7 12 1	19 4 12	41 42 43 44
11	2 1	1 3 1
34 5	1	1

110

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Table VI—

	Concord
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded	54	106	23	30
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2. Plague
3. Scarlet fever
5 Diphtheria
6. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	1	1
8 Malaria
9 Syphihs	1 1	J
10 Influenza
11 Smallpox
12. Measles.
	8	14 1
			1	1
20 Pellagra -
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1	1
	10	11 1 20	5 7	5
	1
24 Diseases of the heart	13	8
	1
26 Bronchitis
	2	7 2	3	3
29. Diarrhea and enteritis (2 years and over) 30 Appendicitis	1
31 Cirrhosis of the liver
	1	2 2 13
	4	2
	9	4
		1
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	1	12
				1
		3 5 4		J
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	2 3
	3	3

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

111

Continued

Durham	Elizabeth City	FayetteviUe
Place	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Deatl	Place of Res.	Place of Deatl	Place of Res.	Place Place of of Death Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	Whit	Ind.	Ind.	Col.	Col.
625 1	292 1	390	300	89	82	82	78	331	144	4		154	107	1
													2
														3
J	3	2 1 16 2	2	1	1									4
1									5
11	27 3	2	3	6 4	10 2	6	4			11	6	6
1			7
									8
	5	3	5 3			4 2	4 2					2 5	5	9
7			6	5			10
										1				12
													13
1	1 2 30	2 2 33 6 1 2	2 1 18 2 1. 6 2											14
9					2 37 3 1 4	2 9 5 2			4 8	3 5	14
96	11	7	2 2	3 1			15
5			16
					1	1 1
9	8	3	3	1				18
			19
1	5 31 1 87 2 3 11 2 2 2 3 2 8 22 2 2 28 2 2 5 13 3											20
24	6 3 25 3 56 7 2 6 7 2 6	4 2 20 4 46 6			1	2	2 24 1 74 18 25 6 7	1			3 2 13 21 6	1 1 12 2 14 4	20
9					21
45	2	3	6	5	16 33 7			22
3			23
125 6	27	29	17	17	3		24
						26
29	14 4 6 2 2	2 1	3	4	4	5 3 2			12 1 1	^	27
			28
4	2	3	3			29
4			29
6	1		4	2					2	1	30
4	8 3 18 13	2 3 5 2 2			31
5					1 3 5	3 4 2
26	12 60 1 7 4 31	10 46 2 1 2 23	2 9 2	2			8 13 2 3 4 1 14	6 12 1 11	32
43			33
17			34
1			35
7	3	3	1	1	28	1 20			36
3		'	37
59	11	8	5	4	38
2			39
2	7 23 5	1 7 3 20 2	2 1	2			1 18 5	2
	1 2 3 3	2 3			6 4 3 2	5 4
6	1 7 2			42
22	7	6
5

112

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Table VI-

	Gastonia
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
All causes— Total recorded.. .	172	156	65	64
2. Plague _...
3. Scarlet fever
5. Diphtheria
	2	3	3	5
8. Malaria
9. Syphilis	1 2	2	1	1
10. Influenza	1
11. Smallpox
12. Measles ^
13. Typhus fever.
14. Dysentery. .	1 1 7
	7
	5	4
18. Diabetes mellitus	7	5
19. Chronic or acute alcoholism
20. Pellagra .	17 4 37	1 2 12 3 41
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1	2
	7	7
	11	8
25. Other diseases of the circulatory system... . .
	5	3 5 5 1
	1 3	7
28. Other diseases of the respiratory system...
	6 5	3
		1 1 5 2 3 17 2
	1 2 1 3 24 2
	8	8
34. Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems	1
36. Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium	2	1
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	5	4
39. Senility, old age
41. Homicide	2 6 13	2 4 10 10	2 3 4	3
	5
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile accidents excepted)	4
44 Causes of death ill-defined unknown or unspecified	11

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

113

Continued

Goldsboro	Greensboro	Greenville
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
95	61	128	114	464	365	208	220	94 1	60	76	68	1
											2
												3
				2	2					'	1
						1	1 1
3	3	4 3 2 1	3 1 2 1	4	6	8 1	24 2	7	11 1
	1
	3 7	5 4	3 6	6 6	1 2	1 1	'	2
								1
			1 1 5	2 8 40 1					2	2
		7 2	5 37 2	14 2 1 4	15 2 3	2 8	1 10
9	6	4	4
4	2	1		14	13	4 1	2	1	1
				1 3 43 132 2 22 7 1 1 2 1 1 15 40 5							20
	1 5 1 14 4	2 13 3 11 3	2 13 3 12 5	3 38 6 114 2 4 1 2 1 12 29 2	5 2 15 32 4 11 1	5 2 16 6 30 7 1 11 3					20
1	1 12				?1
6	11	11	12 1 8	22 23
15 4	15	14 1	8	24 25
		26
5	4	18 1 1 1	17 1 2 1	5	1	5	'	27 28
2	1			4	2	?Q
1	1	29
	4 3 8 32 2 3 4	2 6 28 2 2 2	1		30
3	3	31
			2 2 6	1 1			31
3 5	1 7	3 14 2 2 4	3 12 2 2	3 6	2 4	32 33 34
		1 4	2	35
2		1 2 46 4 11	2 28 4 8	2	1	36 37
8 1	2 1	11	7	17 2	2	12	7	5	3	38 39
1							40
3	2 2	3 3 6 1		2 5 7 5	2 6 8 5			3 1 5	3 2 2 2	41
6	1 2 1	8 22 2	4 13 1	8 4	3 1	42 43 44

114

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Table VI—

	Hickory
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	106	70	25	26
2 Plague
	1 1
	1
5 Diphtheria -
	2	2		1
8 Malaria -
9 Syphilis -			1	1
	4	1
12 Measles
13 Typhus fever - - -
14 Dysentery - -
	3	6
	1	1
20 Pellagra
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1		1	1
	16 2 31	9	4	4
	25	6	7
	8 1 1 1	6	1
	'
	1	1
	1 1 5 4 1	2 5	'	1
	6	1
33 Nephritis - --	6
	2
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	n	4
	'	'
41 Homicide	1	1
	2
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	3 2	1 1	1
	5	1

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics

115

Continued

High Point	Kinston	Lexington
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.
207	195	91	100	179	94	108	94	56	62	12	13	1
												2
				1				I	2			3
									4
2	1 11			1 1	1 2					5
6	1	5	2	15 1	1	1	6 7
									s
	4 4	2 2	1 2			2	2					9
5							10
									11
												12
J	1 1 1 1											13
2	1 10 1	1 1 8 1	3 10 1								14
								14
24	6	3	3	... . [_	6 2		1	15 IR
					17
2	3			2		3	2	2	2			18
					19
2	2 2 1 23 1 46				2 1 1 8							20
2	1	1	1 4 11 4 28 1	4 1 12	4					'>0
		1 4			21
	8 1 21 1	9 1 24 2	12	4	4	4	22 23
42	16	13 1	12 2	18	17	3	3	24 25
			1	J	26
5 5 1	5 1 1 2 1 2 15 2	4 1 1	4 1 1	12 2	4 2	8 1 1 3 1	7 1	3	5	27 28
	1			29
	1 4 1	2 1	3 1				29
2	1 3	1 3	1	1			30
		31
J						31
18	15 1	2 1	9 20 7 2 5 1 31 1 1 2 5 5	3 13 1 3	7 13 1	2 10	2 3	2 3	;	1	32 33 34
						35
		1 2 4	1 2 4	3						36
2	1 12 2 3 2 8 7 2			1 7			37
	13 1 1 2 2 4	11	6	8			38
2			39
2									40
2 8 10 3	2 1 2 1	2 1 3	3 3 3	3 3 3	3	3			41
		42
		43
		44

116

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Table VI-

	New Bern
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	75	63	136	123
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers -. .
2 Plague .
3 Scarlet fever
			3	3
5 Diphtheria	1
6 Tuberculosis of the respiratory system	2	10 1	13
7 All other forms of tuberculosis	1
8 Malaria
9 Syphilis			5 2	5
10 Influenza	3	3	2
1 1 Smallpox
12 Measles
13 Typhus fever
	2 6
	5	6	8
	4	4	1	1
			1 2 2 - 20	1
20. Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood, and chronic	1	4	2
	2	18
	3
	10	n 1 1 4 1	12	7
	1 3 1
	7	7
	4 1	4
	1 3	1 1
	1 8
	3 7	7 18 5	2
	20
	3
	1 1
	1	6	2
38. Congenital malformations and debiUty, premature birth, and diseases	11	7	10	8
	1	2
41 Homicide	2 3 7	2
	2 5	3	3
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile	7

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117

Continued

Raleigh	ReidsviUe	Rocky Mount	Salisbury
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	h W. 109	C. 193	P c. 125	W. 178	W. 101	|1 C. 64	if c. 60
White	White	Ind.	Col.	Col.	White	White	Col.	Col.	White	"
520	266	1	264 1	205	78	48	48	44	208
1
			1 21 3	1 21 2
20	5 1		2	2	1	1			8	16 1	1	1	4	4
1
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2	2	2
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4	1 35 1 5						3 9 1	2 5 1	2 21 2	1 10 2	6	5
55 1	14 1	10	4 2	4 1
1
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			1 3 2 21 2 47 5	2 16 3 41 5
3	2 23 74 10	1	1	1	3	2	2 17 6 41 1 1 10	9 3 26 4	1 21 40 1	2
37 15	4 1 17 1	2 10	6	6	15 29	9 15 1	9 14 2	22 23
115 38	9	7	24
				'fi
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2					1	" r	1 1	3	1			29
			3			5 3 1 1 21 7 32	1	1	1
3	2 2 6 30 3			1		31
2		1 35 6 2 4					1 12 5 1 15				1 5 3	4 3	31
10 76 6	3 27 4 1	3 2 1	2 1	1 5 1	5 1	6 20 5 4 12 12	1 1 1 7	7 10 2 1 29	2 5	32 33 84
	10	2 1	1 2	35
3					1	1	36
3	3 22 1 1				37
44 1		10 1	1	13	4	3	2	38
2					2 1 4 13	3 10			1	1			40
1		1 17	5 3 5					3 6 10 1	2 2 5	1 1 2 1	2 3
15	9 13 1		2 8	1 6	'	'	6 3	2 6	42 4S
]	2	2	44

118

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Table VI-

		Shelby
Cause of Death	Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	Place of Res.
	White	White	Col.	Col.
	107	78 1	29
2. Plague -
3. Scarlet fever
	1
5. Diphtheria
	1	1	3
7, All nthpr forms of tiiherrulnsis
8 Malaria - -
9 Syphilis
10 Influenza - -	1	1
11 Smallpox _ - . .
12 Measles - - -
13 Typhus fever
14 Other infectious and parasitic diseases	9	1 10
15 Cancer and other malignant tumors	1	2
	1	1
20 Avitaminosis, other general diseases, diseases of the blood and chronic	1	1	1
22 Intracranial lesions of vascular origin	10	6	3	3
24 Diseases of the heart	2	18	1	4
25 Other diseases of the circulatory system	1
26 Bronchitis
	6	3 2 1	1
	3	1
	1	J
3 1 Cirrhosis of the liver
31 Other diseases of the biliary system
	3 12	3 8	3 3	2
	3
	2 2	8	1
38. Congenital malformations and debility, premature birth, and diseases	10	1	^
			1
	4 12	4 5	2
43. Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide, and automobile
	1

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Continued

Statesville	Thomasville	Wilmington	Wilson	Winston-Salem
Place of Death	Place of Res.	Place of Death	c. 29	°5 W. 65	W. 62	c. 20	c. 22	|| W. 336 1	■0 W. 230	•0.XS || C. 349 1	C. 276 1	W. 176	"0 is W. 92	°5 C. 158	•0 li c. 120	W. 569	w. 346	c. 398	c. 426
White	White	Col.
166	86	32
															2
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	2									2 11 6	2	5 6 7
2	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	2	1	9 1	4	37	18
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2	2	2	2					n	2 19	4 11			1 1	..'.			9 8	15 8	g
2			2	2	5	2	7	6	10
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2	1 10							5 26	5 19 1	3 14 3	3 11	10	1 8 2 3	8 1	5 32 3	5 31 3
18	3	3	2	4	2	3	15 16 17
9	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	9 1 4 30	7	2 1	2 1	4	2	12	7 1	9 2 6 2 43 3 83 4	10 1 2 6 2 44 5 86 9	18 19
										20
	4 1 10 2 23			1				3 26	2 37 3 52 4	3 1 30 3 47 4	3 16	2			14	5
1			1 9 1 12 4 2 3
13	2	1	9			7	15 3	1 2 15 1	43 6 147 13 4 27 7 6 3 6 6 3 16 20 1 5 55 2 3 19 3	30 3 109 7 18 3 4 1 2 3 6 16 5 3 2 23 2 4 1 5 13 3
5
37	4 2	4 3	11 2	3 1	3	68 6 1 19 1 4	48 4 13 1 3	25 4	le 2	24 25
15	6	2	2	1	1	31 2 5 1 1 9 43 12 3 5 2 27 16 7 13 9	24 1 2 6 35 11 1 2 1 20 12 9 9	3 1 4 1 1 1 5 27 2	1 1	9	6	27 4 3 1 14 35 5 1 4 23	27 4 10 2 3 1 1 14 35 5 4 1 22	27 28
2	1					1	1	4 2	4 2	29
2	1	1
5				1	3 3	2 2
1							14 1
3	9 1	2 4	3	3 4	3 4			8 25 8	6 18 3	5 37 2	5 30 1	32
15 3	5	5	33 43
	1 1	1					35
		1				3				3	1	36
							37
15	8			18 1	9	1	1	51 1 4 3 12 20 ?	21 1 5 3 7 19 2	21	10	12	10	38
			39
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					3 7 3	3 6 6 4
2	1 1	1 1	1 1	2 3 1	2 3			3 10 4	5 3	3 3	3 2 3
6 1	2	2	43

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Annual Report Nineteen Forty-three Table VIII. — Deaths (Exclusive of Stillbirths) By Cause and

Cause of Death	1	a 1 t2	Q
	4,317 8 85 5 3 3 5 25 31 128 3 1 3 25 14 19 15 395 115 1 378 22 4 1 5 16 362 125 1,319 234 230 10 85 5 327 303	1,091
1 . Typhoid fever .
6. Cerebrospinal Meningitis
9 . Whooping cough
10. Diphtheria	1
12. Tetanus
13 . Tuberculosis of the respiratory system
14-22. Tuberculosis of the meninges and central nervous system
24. Septicemia and purulent infection
27. Dysentery
30. Syphilis	8 1	4
33 Influenza
35. Measles.-
70. Ricliets _.._
	1
	1
90-95. Pericarditis, endocarditis and myocarditis and other diseases of the heart		1
	1 1	2
110. Pleurisy
119. Diarrhea and enteritis
122. Hernia, intestinal obstruction
130. Acute nephritis
iSl . Carbuncle and furuncle
152. Phlegmon
153 Other diseases of the skin and cellular tissue
	73 21 749 87	31
158 Congenital debihty	7
	184
	38
	39
181 Accidental burns
	46 19	4
186. Accidental faU
199-200. Sudden death, cause not specified and iU-defined	17
	5

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics By Certain Subdivisions of the First Year of Life — 1943

125

1	1 1	1 2	g 5		1 s	1 1	1 2	i 2	a § -2
186	328	232	161	139	376	275	625 25 1	359	211
					1 13	11	3 13	2
			1	4	18
			1
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									3
							2 15 4	1 1 4 1	1
			1				1
				1 4	4	1
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	3	2	2	7	22	15	31	29 1	16
							9 1 1 9 6 123	2 3
					1 2 1 1 1 43	1	6
	4		1	1
			1
1	'			14	53	3 4 68	1
			2
5	12	10	20	44
	3	1	4	3	13	14	41	24 1 72 9 2	"
J		12	10	18	38 2	51 1	134 5	42
	2	2
					1 1 3
				2	2
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18	49	41	15	18	32	18	40	20	7
5	15	9	7	5	18	10	12	11	5
		83 12	41 5			11
38	36	4	6	3	4		1
22	39	20	10	5	3	4 2 15	4 1 22	1 2 4	5
2	2	4	5	3	22	2
							1 51	1 23	2
16	30	25	19	13	54	25	8
5	16	9	13	14	56	31	62	47	26

126

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Table IX — Deaths Under 1 Year of Age (Exclusive of Stillbirths) and Maternal Deaths in Each County With Rate Per 1,000 Live Births — 1943

Infant Mortality

Number Rate

4,317 50

44.9 36.7 23.3

30.2 53.2 63.3 65.8 60.7 52.4 34.1 46.7 24.0 39.0 40.4 50.8 37.3 36.9 46.8 35.1 58.7 47.2 63.3 24.5 56.4 70.1 54.6 58.8 51.0 46.2 46.4 37.4 53.2 54.2 45.4 47.5 48.4 86.1 11.1 34.4 22.3 42.3 37.8 43.8 40.0 43.1 49.8 67.2 36.0 45.6

Place of Residence

Number Rate

4,307 58

50.7

77.7 67.2

54.4 41.4 46.5 24.3 40.2 42.5 50.0 46.0 37.8 45.0 43.7 50.5 48.1 59.5 28.3 51.2 64.8 48.5 61.5 50.0 46.6 44.0 42.4 42.8 53.0 44.0 48.6 45.9 94.7 13.6 31.8 22.4 43.4 42.8 44.4 42.3 43.6 56.6 73.9 35.9 45.8

Maternal Mortality

Number Rate

3.6 3.9 10.5 3.4

Place of Residence

Number Rate

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127

Table IX — Continued

Infant Mortality

Maternal Mortality

Place of Death

46.3 29.5 37.6 33.2 50.8 46.6 48.0 35.4 48.0 23.8 47.9 27.4 30.8 35.3 40.7 52.5 38.6 51.1 31.4 66.4 44.7 38.1 29.7 24.3 40.4 60.8 31.0 51.7 57.7 49.3 46.7 35.0 36.6 49.2 48.5 25.5 52.3 38.9 52.4 34.3 36.9 49.3 40.1 53.6 70.7 23.9 45.5 55.7 58.5 43.5 33.8

Place of Residence

40.8 36.4 30.9 35.0 53.6 53.2 55.0 36.7 53.5 25.2 44.6 30.7 35.0 36.9 36.5 45.7 35.5 64.7 39.3 64.4 44.9 41.6 26.4 38.0 39.5 46.5 32.2 52.4 59.3 49.8 49.7 35.4 45.5 55.2 46.5 37.7 55.2 42.4 51.5 55.6 41.5 48.3 40.2 57.8 62.8 26.5 46.2 56.5 57.8 28.5 33.7

Number Rate

2	4.2
2	1.3
1	4.7
2	3.2
10	6.5
3	4.4
2	3.1

Place of Residence

Number Rate

128

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Table X — Cases and Deaths from Special

Di..„,		Total	Jan.	Feb.
	Cases ..-	663 3 4,698 2 801 52 157 9 2,374	77	70
	Deaths -
2 Chickenpox -	Cases Deaths .	632	536
3 Diphtheria . -	Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases	75 4 23 1 25	42
4 Endemic typhus -.	4 15
	146
	Deaths
6 Gonorrhea	Cases	10,859 10 1,404 503 183 5,217 22 478	930	982
	Deaths
7 Influenza	Cases.	92 55	156
	Deaths	72
8 Malaria	Cases
	Deaths-
9 Measles	Cases..	105 3 27 6	220
		2
		44
		6
11 Mumps	Cases
		2 11
	Cases
	Deaths
13 Paratyphoid fever	Cases	6 1 15 107
	Deaths .
	Cases
	Deaths	6	10
15 Pneumonia (all forms)	Cases
	Deaths	1,677 36 14 2,854 12 201 36 21 1 14,125 295 1 4 1,590 1,368 43 117 14 4 111 19 7 1 8,408 114	214 3	200
	Cases
	Deaths	J
17 Scarlet fever	Cases	277 2 9 7 1	176
	Deaths
	Cases	20
	Deaths	3
19 Smallpox	Cases
20 Syphilis	Cases	1,548 24	1,535
	Deaths	26
			1
		59 128 2 15 2	165
		111
		3
		10
24 Tularemia
	Deaths
25 Typhoid fever	Cases	3	6
	Deaths
	1
	Deaths
		460 6	555
		10
	Deaths	432	11	10

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics 129

Diseases by Month of Occurrence — 1943

March	April	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
39	60 1 644	53	52	«	34	• 68 10	59	62	41 1
831	484	165	45 1 25	13	124	532	682
31	19	30	21	67	158	161	110	62
3	1	1	1	1	2	8	10	12	5
5	13	3	5	8	4	10	14	32	25
		1 614	1 105	21	12			12
700	691	15	12	21
'■■';	870 76	1.006	10	927	770 3 7	818	1,112 2 22	576	721
526	24	43	7	20	421
88	49	16	7	13	5	10	25	23	140
20 1	3	29	33 1 707	9	38	12	5	11	5
308	829	1,496	240	73	36	97	235	871
1	3	3	Q	1	2			2	2
85	85	74	41	41		11	14	18	■ 17
7	8	8	3	4	[	^	4	7	3
	""'"^'	1	3	3		I	--T	1
1				1	3	1
			1 2 14
	2 11	1 6	9	n			2 13
12	5	8	2
256 1	164 1	92	63 1	63 6	66 9	90 5	111 4	116 1	242 3
1	1 158			4 60	126	1 319	2 553	1 537	2
145	98	38	367
				2			1	• 2	2
22	5	3	6	6	6	1	8	7	108
2	2 3	2 2		3	5	3	5 ■ 1 1 1,063	1	3
13		1
1,280	1,457	1,346	1,175	1,197	973	904	690	957
26	19	21	29	23	20	22	34	32	19
1			2
60	207	132	194	139	43	152	155	144	140
116	133	132	107	99	101	96	107	116	122
2	3	7	4	2		5	10	3	2
4	12	16	13	8	10	9	6	6	8
	2	2 1				1	2	2	2
1				2
12	3	7	7	'25	17	14	11	5	1
	1	2 1 1 936		4 1	5	4 1	1 2		1
1
696	732	1,251	922	597	383	484	832	560
11	13	«	11	9	9	''	»	4	14
13	12	14	70	101	85	44	38	23	11

130

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Table X-

Diseases		Total	Jan:	Feb.
29. Rocky Mountain spotted fever.. .J		36
Deaths Cases
30 Rabies
	Deaths
	Deaths. Cases	10 130 16 783	2 2
	1
	Deaths	2
33 Automobile fatalities (total)	Deaths	57	52

North Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics 131

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March	April	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
	2		4 2	16 7	9 2	3		1	1
		,
"'"j	1	54		2 36 8 56			2	1
	3	65 3 82	20
-			1
73	61	44	59	92	78	75

132

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Table XI — Death Rates Per 100,000 Population from Ten Important

Causes, for the State as a Whole, With Estimated Population for

Each Year — 1914-1943, Inclusive

	Estimated			Death Rate per 100,000 Population	rem—
Year	.11								1	g
	Population	Hi III OH(M	i 5	1	1	2	1	1	11	1	V
1914..	2,339,452	81.2	15.8	10.8	7.6	23.6	0.9	1.1	139.3	35.8	18.7
1915	2,371,095	72.9	22.1	12.7	0.5	35.0	1.2	0.4	156.4	31.3	11.5
1916	2,402,738	72.7	17.3	12.9	7.1	19.4	2.5	0.5	146.3	29.1	18.1
1917	2,434,381	91.4	12.6	12.0	44.8	24.9	1.6	0,4	141.5	30.2	26.2
1918 -	2,466,024	77.5	10.2	8.2	12.4	25.7	0.9	0.1	137.5	22.2	28.5
1919	2,497,?67	55.1	9.6	8.1	5.0	15.3	0.9	0.3	120.3	17.0	8.7
1920	•2,559,123	59.9	11.1	8.2	2.3	11.6	1.5	1.0	113.6	12.5	13.4
1921	2,614,335	61.7	13.9	6.6	4.9	12.7	1.3	0.8	101.0	11.7	14.6
1922	2,649,982 2,686,325	52.4 53.0	19.2 12.3	6.7 5.6	0.4 19.0	11.5 8.3	2.4 0.9	0.2 0.4	97.5 94.7	11.2	7.2
1923 -	18.6
1924 -.-	2,722,669	54.5	11.8	4.5	15.6	10.0	1.0	0.8	99.1	9.9	17.4
1925	2,812,000	52.0	11.0	4.3	0.4	14.1	1.1	0.2	89.0	9.8	5.3
1926	2,858,000	49.8	9.2	2.9	2.9	16.0	1.1	0.4	96.8	9.4	10.1
1927	2,897,000	40.7	9.5	1.8	7.9	23.7	1.0	0.4	88.9	7.8	21.8
1928	2,936,000 2,975,000 •3,170,276 3.217,000	44.8 33.3 35.0 26.0	12.0 10.8 8.6 7.1	2.2 2.2 1.4 1.5	17.0 0.5 0.06 3.1	29.2 32.0 32.0 21,6	1.4 1.8 1.2 1.8	0.5 0.03 0.1 0.06	83.3 85.8 76.4 71.4	6.3 5.5 4.7 4.8	6.5
1929	9.0
1930	9.5
1931	6.5
1932	3,244,000	19.9	5.1	1.7	1.8	14.6	1.0		67.8	4.9	7.4
1933	3,275,000	24.5	6.6	1.5	2.8	12.0	1.4		64.4	3.9	6.1
1934	3,306.000	30.3	6.3	2.4	10.1	13.2	1.2		64.8	2.8	12.9
1935	3,417,000	24.9	4.9	2.8	2.0	11.4	0.6		56.7	2.4	9.0
1936	3,457,000	24.2	5.5	4.5	0.3	10.3	0.6		60,8	2.1	1.1
1937	3,492,000	24.6	4.8	2.6	1.3	13.0	0.5	0.03	54.8	2.2	4.9
1938	3,527,000 3,534,000	29.2 18.8	5.0 4.8	2.2 1.8	6.9 1.8	7.3 5.9	0.7 0.3		52.3 51.3	2.0 1.4	7.6
1939:	6.4
1940	•3,571,623 3,621,791 3,662,000	13.5 19.6 12.5	3.0 2.3 2.0	0.7 1.0	0.2 2.8 1 5	4.6 3.7 3.0	0.3 0.3 0.3		49.4 49.1 43.7	1.1 0.8 0.5	2.5
1941	5.6
1942	2.8
1943	3,702,000	11.6	1.4	0 6	0.6	2.9	0.3		39.4	0.5	3.1

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