From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 18:56:28 MDT
From: Hal Finney [mailto:hal@finney.org]
> Mez writes:
>
> > Let me summarize the CDCs statistics for US causes of death
> > in 1921.
> >
> > These stats are available at
> > http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/statab/lead1900_98.pdf
>
> It's curious that these figures only add up to about 66% of
> the cases. Either there are a large number of individual
> causes of death, each of which account for fewer than 1% of
> the total, that make up the remainder; or else there is a
> large OTHER cateogory where cause of death was unknown.
Good observation, Hal. I have no explanation. The CDC's doc does say
that some of the older data have been re-interpreted in later years.
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