Marion County Vital Statistics

3rd Quarter

Year to Date

Quarter Ending: September 1997

1997

1996

1995

1997

1996

1995

Births

Delivery in Hospital

1157

1112

1142

3361

3246

3207

Delivery by Others

7

12

13

33

36

35

Total

1164

1124

1155

3394

3282

3242

Deaths

Total

540

574

570

1821

1773

1723

Medical Investigation

56

64

74

162

184

190

      Homicide

0

5

9

5

10

16

      Suicide

6

11

11

25

27

33

      Accident - M.V.T.A.

1

11

14

17

32

38

      Accident - Other

22

17

19

39

49

42

      Legal Intervention

0

1

0

1

1

0

      Pending / Undetermined

2

1

3

5

4

6

      Natural

25

18

18

70

61

53

Non-Medical Investigation

      (All Natural)

484

510

496

1659

1589

1533

Infant Deaths

5

8

4

17

12

13

Fetal Deaths

6

7

8

17

16

15

Communicable Diseases

      Hepatitis A

16

10

98

24

72

30

      Hepatitis B

4

8

3

13

23

11

      Hepatitis - Other

1

0

0

1

1

3

      Rubeola

0

0

0

0

5

0

      Rubella

0

0

0

0

0

0

      Pertussis

3

6

1

5

10

2

      Tuberculosis

4

4

9

11

17

17

      AIDS

0

9

17

15

35

32

STD

      Gonorrhea

9

15

13

35

57

42

      Infectious Syphilis

1

0

0

3

0

0

      Chlamydia

147

185

131

460

571

499

      PID

48

28

29

137

111

143