17-7. South Carolina Infant Mortality by Race by
County: 1994 1/
TOTAL WHITE BLACK & OTHER
COUNTY NUMBER RATE NUMBER RATE NUMBER RATE
Abbeville 4 13.7 1 5.5 3 27.3
Aiken 13 6.9 7 5.4 6 10.0
Allendale 6 34.9 1 32.3 5 35.5
Anderson 15 7.5 12 7.7 3 6.7
Bamberg 1 4.2 0 0.0 1 6.1
Barnwell 2 6.1 1 6.8 1 5.4
Beaufort 8 4.9 4 3.9 4 6.6
Berkeley 25 11.5 9 5.8 16 25.9
Calhoun 2 10.2 1 13.0 1 8.3
Charleston 57 12.5 21 8.1 36 18.5
Cherokee 7 11.0 6 12.7 1 6.2
Chester 9 19.6 1 4.7 8 32.7
Chesterfield 13 22.5 7 22.0 6 23.0
Clarendon 6 15.6 2 12.9 4 17.4
Colleton 5 8.8 4 15.7 1 3.2
Darlington 11 11.9 2 5.0 9 17.4
Dillon 3 5.8 0 0.0 3 9.9
Dorchester 7 5.5 5 5.6 2 5.3
Edgefield 2 8.3 1 9.0 1 7.6
Fairfield 1 3.0 0 0.0 1 4.2
Florence 25 14.5 10 11.2 15 18.1
Georgetown 10 13.6 3 8.7 7 17.8
Greenville 39 8.4 24 6.8 15 13.5
Greenwood 7 7.5 2 3.8 5 12.4
Hampton 1 3.6 0 0.0 1 5.3
Horry 23 12.2 7 5.2 16 29.8
Jasper 3 10.9 0 0.0 3 16.7
Kershaw 3 4.9 2 4.9 1 5.1
Lancaster 9 11.1 5 9.5 4 14.1
Laurens 12 15.4 5 9.8 7 26.0
Lee 1 3.9 0 0.0 1 5.2
Lexington 20 7.2 13 5.7 7 13.9
McCormick 2 19.4 1 37.0 1 13.2
Marion 1 1.9 0 0.0 1 2.7
Marlboro 8 18.6 5 28.2 3 11.9
Newberry 3 7.1 3 13.6 0 0.0
Oconee 5 7.2 4 6.6 1 11.8
Orangeburg 8 6.5 2 4.8 6 7.3
Pickens 6 5.0 5 4.6 1 9.2
Richland 28 6.6 5 2.6 23 9.7
Saluda 4 17.2 3 23.6 1 9.5
Spartanburg 20 6.3 11 4.9 9 9.8
Sumter 21 12.6 5 6.1 16 18.8
Union 3 7.6 1 4.1 2 13.0
Williamsburg 10 18.7 2 13.5 8 20.7
York 17 8.8 8 5.6 9 17.4
SOUTH CAROLINA 486 9.4 211 6.6 275 13.8
1/: Rates per 1,000 live births.
Note: Residence data - Race = Race of Mother
Source: S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, Division of Biostatistics, Office of
Vital Records and Public Health Statistics, November 1995.
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