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17-7. SC Infant Mortality by Race by County: 1996 1/

                        TOTAL           WHITE         BLACK & OTHER

 COUNTY            NUMBER  RATE     NUMBER   RATE     NUMBER   RATE

Abbeville 4 11.9 1 4.7 3 24.6 Aiken 9 4.9 7 5.4 2 3.6 Allendale 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Anderson 10 4.8 7 4.3 3 6.7 Bamberg 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Barnwell 3 10.5 1 7.6 2 12.8 Beaufort 10 6.4 5 4.7 5 10.4 Berkeley 8 4.1 2 1.4 6 10.4 Calhoun 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Charleston 38 9.5 14 6.2 24 13.8 Cherokee 12 17.8 6 12.4 6 31.4 Chester 2 4.5 0 0.0 2 8.8 Chesterfield 5 8.8 0 0.0 5 20.2 Clarendon 3 7.5 1 5.9 2 8.6 Colleton 3 5.7 2 7.0 1 4.1 Darlington 8 9.3 2 5.0 6 13.0 Dillon 6 12.9 2 10.9 4 14.2 Dorchester 12 10.5 4 4.8 8 25.6 Edgefield 2 7.9 0 0.0 2 16.4 Fairfield 1 3.1 0 0.0 1 4.8 Florence 18 10.2 3 3.2 15 18.0 Georgetown 3 4.6 2 6.3 1 3.0 Greenville 28 5.7 18 4.8 10 8.7 Greenwood 16 18.5 6 11.4 10 29.5 Hampton 4 14.2 2 17.5 2 11.9 Horry 25 12.2 15 9.7 10 19.7 Jasper 2 6.5 0 0.0 2 11.4 Kershaw 7 11.4 4 9.6 3 15.5 Lancaster 6 7.9 1 2.0 5 20.2 Laurens 7 9.0 4 7.7 3 11.6 Lee 6 28.7 3 69.8 3 18.1 Lexington 16 5.5 10 4.2 6 11.4 McCormick 1 10.8 0 0.0 1 14.1 Marion 10 21.5 3 20.4 7 22.0 Marlboro 2 4.7 0 0.0 2 7.9 Newberry 4 9.5 4 16.8 0 0.0 Oconee 5 6.5 5 7.6 0 0.0 Orangeburg 9 7.5 3 7.3 6 7.7 Pickens 6 4.9 6 5.4 0 0.0 Richland 26 6.3 3 1.6 23 10.1 Saluda 3 13.9 2 15.3 1 11.8 Spartanburg 20 6.0 16 6.6 4 4.5 Sumter 36 21.8 5 6.2 31 37.1 Union 8 20.4 5 20.5 3 20.3 Williamsburg 10 20.9 0 0.0 10 28.5 York 10 5.1 5 3.4 5 10.5 South Carolina 424 8.3 179 5.5 245 13.0
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 Public Health Statistics, January 1998.

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