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Table 45: Infant Deaths, Neonatal Deaths, Post Neonatal Deaths and Perinatal Mortality by Resident County
New York State 2000
Infant Deaths1 Neonatal Deaths2 Post Neonatal Deaths3 Perinatal Mortality4
County Number Rate Number Rate Number Rate Number Rate5
New York State 1,632 6.3 1,157 4.5 475 1.8 3,169 12.2
New York City 768 6.3 532 4.4 236 2.0 1,757 14.4
Bronx 169 7.4 117 5.1 52 2.3 398 17.3
Kings 279 7.0 190 4.8 89 2.2 683 16.9
New York 108 5.4 74 3.7 34 1.7 231 11.4
Queens 176 5.5 124 3.8 52 1.6 382 11.7
Richmond 36 6.1 27 4.6 9 1.5 63 10.6
Rest of State 864 6.3 625 4.5 239 1.7 1,412 10.2
Albany 28 8.5 20 6.1 8 2.4 38 11.4
Allegany 6 11.0 3 5.5 3 5.5 4 7.4
Broome 21 9.5 14 6.3 7 3.2 22 9.9
Cattaraugus 6 5.9 5 4.9 1 1.0 8 7.8
Cayuga 8 8.4 6 6.3 2 2.1 11 11.5
Chautauqua 7 4.5 5 3.2 2 1.3 14 9.0
Chemung 3 2.8 3 2.8 0 0.0 6 5.5
Chenango 5 8.7 3 5.2 2 3.5 8 13.8
Clinton 4 5.1 3 3.8 1 1.3 11 13.9
Columbia 4 6.1 3 4.5 1 1.5 4 6.0
Cortland 5 8.9 4 7.1 1 1.8 10 17.5
Delaware 6 13.0 4 8.7 2 4.3 7 15.1
Dutchess 16 4.8 12 3.6 4 1.2 29 8.6
Erie 84 7.5 61 5.4 23 2.0 128 11.3
Essex 5 14.2 4 11.4 1 2.8 5 14.2
Franklin 1 2.1 1 2.1 0 0.0 7 14.8
Fulton 1 1.6 1 1.6 0 0.0 7 11.4
Genesee 5 7.3 3 4.4 2 2.9 10 14.4
Greene 4 8.4 3 6.3 1 2.1 7 14.5
Hamilton 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Herkimer 4 6.1 3 4.6 1 1.5 10 15.0
Jefferson 6 3.6 3 1.8 3 1.8 20 12.0
Lewis 3 8.9 2 6.0 1 3.0 6 17.6
Livingston 3 4.5 2 3.0 1 1.5 10 14.8
Madison 9 11.4 5 6.4 4 5.1 8 10.1
Monroe 87 9.2 70 7.4 17 1.8 124 13.0
Montgomery 3 4.9 0 0.0 3 4.9 8 12.9
Nassau 97 5.7 72 4.2 25 1.5 154 9.0
Niagara 19 7.6 16 6.4 3 1.2 28 11.1
Oneida 27 10.8 20 8.0 7 2.8 46 18.2
Onondaga 47 7.8 34 5.7 13 2.2 74 12.2
Ontario 9 7.8 4 3.5 5 4.3 13 11.2
Orange 25 5.1 18 3.7 7 1.4 49 9.9
Orleans 3 5.6 1 1.9 2 3.8 3 5.6
Oswego 10 6.8 6 4.1 4 2.7 11 7.4
Otsego 2 3.5 2 3.5 0 0.0 7 12.1
Putnam 5 4.2 3 2.5 2 1.7 5 4.2
Rensselaer 16 9.4 10 5.9 6 3.5 16 9.3
Rockland 16 3.5 11 2.4 5 1.1 32 7.0
St Lawrence 8 6.5 4 3.3 4 3.3 10 8.1
Saratoga 10 4.0 8 3.2 2 0.8 21 8.4
Schenectady 12 7.0 10 5.8 2 1.2 32 18.5
Schoharie 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 5 15.3
Schuyler 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 4.5
Seneca 2 5.5 2 5.5 0 0.0 7 18.9
Steuben 11 9.3 7 5.9 4 3.4 17 14.2
Suffolk 94 4.6 76 3.8 18 0.9 145 7.1
Sullivan 12 14.5 10 12.1 2 2.4 14 16.8
Tioga 1 1.7 1 1.7 0 0.0 1 1.7
Tompkins 11 13.3 5 6.0 6 7.2 12 14.4
Ulster 10 5.6 4 2.2 6 3.3 23 12.7
Warren 5 8.0 2 3.2 3 4.8 12 18.9
Washington 1 1.6 0 0.0 1 1.6 2 3.3
Wayne 7 6.0 6 5.1 1 0.9 9 7.7
Westchester 65 4.9 45 3.4 20 1.5 131 9.8
Wyoming 2 4.7 2 4.7 0 0.0 5 11.6
Yates 3 11.0 3 11.0 0 0.0 5 18.2
1 Infant Death Rate -- deaths under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births
2 Neonatal Death Rate -- deaths under 28 days per 1,000 live births
3 Post Neonatal Death Rate -- deaths at age 28 days and older, but less than 1 year per 1,000 live births
4 Perinatal Mortality -- the number of neonatal deaths + spontaneous fetal deaths of gestation 20+ weeks
5 Perinatal Mortality Rate -- the number of neonatal deaths + spontaneous fetal deaths of gestation 20+ weeks per 1,000 spontaneous fetal deaths of gestation 20+ weeks + live births