Table 18: Spontaneous Fetal Deaths and Rates by Resident County and Race/Ethnicity
New York State 1997
	Total1	White		Black		Other		Not Stated		Hispanic2
County	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Number	Rate
New York State	22,206	79.5	14,417	73.0	5,781	95.2	943	50.2	1,065	3,972	72.6
New York City	13,232	100.1	6,561	92.4	4,881	107.6	803	56.4	987	3,744	87.4
Bronx	2,726	108.2	1,347	107.1	1,202	104.7	63	71.0	114	1,372	103.5
Kings	4,683	105.4	1,935	87.0	2,084	113.6	198	59.9	466	878	86.6
New York	1,945	91.3	1,121	90.3	529	85.6	114	50.1	181	584	76.8
Queens	3,132	90.1	1,586	85.3	931	110.6	409	55.0	206	845	77.1
Richmond	746	115.6	572	111.2	135	144.2	19	54.6	20	65	75.1
Rest of State	8,974	61.0	7,856	62.1	900	58.6	140	30.8	78	228	19.2
Albany	254	72.0	192	69.3	54	87.2	4	34.5	4	7	61.4
Allegany	75	118.1	75	119.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Broome	121	52.1	107	50.8	12	90.9	2	24.1	0	1	20.0
Cattaraugus	75	66.9	71	71.6	2	200.0	2	26.7	0	0	0.0
Cayuga	60	60.4	60	61.7	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	1	111.1
Chautauqua	152	85.6	147	86.1	2	62.5	2	87.0	1	14	127.3
Chemung	74	66.6	64	62.1	8	119.4	1	83.3	1	1	90.9
Chenango	32	49.9	29	46.0	1	333.3	0	0.0	2	0	0.0
Clinton	70	80.9	69	81.3	1	142.9	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Columbia	43	60.8	38	58.4	4	87.0	1	111.1	0	1	40.0
Cortland	27	45.8	27	46.4	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Delaware	39	73.6	39	76.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Dutchess	224	61.8	210	67.8	9	22.4	0	0.0	5	2	7.9
Erie	737	59.6	609	62.3	122	53.6	6	21.6	0	4	10.7
Essex	19	46.3	19	47.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Franklin	23	47.1	22	49.0	0	0.0	1	33.3	0	0	0.0
Fulton	40	60.1	40	60.8	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Genesee	59	72.5	57	74.1	1	40.0	0	0.0	1	0	0.0
Greene	50	92.4	49	95.5	1	90.9	0	0.0	0	1	55.6
Hamilton	2	41.7	2	41.7	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	1	1000.0
Herkimer	69	89.7	68	89.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	0	0.0
Jefferson	88	48.3	79	47.9	8	59.3	0	0.0	1	2	24.7
Lewis	34	91.9	34	92.9	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Livingston	26	35.5	26	36.4	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Madison	51	58.2	51	59.6	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Monroe	309	31.1	257	34.2	45	22.3	2	5.7	5	5	7.0
Montgomery	54	83.3	52	83.6	2	250.0	0	0.0	0	5	102.0
Nassau	1,370	74.2	1,110	72.4	214	95.1	35	41.5	11	59	22.6
Niagara	263	90.6	227	89.3	32	113.9	4	50.0	0	0	0.0
Oneida	228	77.8	203	77.1	19	88.0	2	27.8	4	2	21.3
Onondaga	404	63.4	323	63.3	65	62.9	14	59.3	2	5	25.3
Ontario	43	35.2	41	35.0	2	60.6	0	0.0	0	1	23.8
Orange	425	80.3	391	82.5	25	57.2	4	41.7	5	14	19.5
Orleans	66	107.1	64	110.9	1	31.3	0	0.0	1	1	71.4
Oswego	86	56.2	85	56.3	1	142.9	0	0.0	0	3	120.0
Otsego	51	80.1	50	81.3	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Putnam	43	33.9	42	34.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	1	17.5
Rensselaer	134	69.9	118	68.6	13	96.3	2	42.6	1	1	21.3
Rockland	337	72.0	314	81.5	13	22.0	3	14.2	7	5	10.5
St Lawrence	41	33.6	39	33.5	0	0.0	2	66.7	0	0	0.0
Saratoga	172	66.7	163	65.4	3	83.3	2	51.3	4	1	50.0
Schenectady	229	115.7	196	115.2	30	138.2	2	43.5	1	4	60.6
Schoharie	33	88.2	33	90.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Schuyler	14	63.9	14	65.1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Seneca	4	10.6	4	10.8	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Steuben	40	32.6	38	31.9	2	111.1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Suffolk	1,160	55.2	1,017	54.8	110	61.4	23	38.3	10	27	10.0
Sullivan	69	76.0	62	74.8	5	73.5	2	181.8	0	7	66.7
Tioga	6	9.3	6	9.5	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Tompkins	13	14.9	10	13.3	1	27.8	2	26.0	0	0	0.0
Ulster	171	81.7	163	84.9	5	43.5	1	30.3	2	6	56.6
Warren	73	95.8	73	97.6	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	1	111.1
Washington	50	75.8	47	73.2	3	600.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Wayne	29	22.5	28	22.8	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	0	0.0
Westchester	589	44.5	478	46.7	83	39.2	21	27.6	7	45	17.7
Wyoming	16	34.9	16	35.1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Yates	8	23.6	8	23.9	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Spontaneous Fetal Death Rate = Number of Spontaneous Fetal Deaths per 1,000 Spontaneous Fetal Deaths + Live Births
1 Total Spontaneous Fetal Deaths = White + Black + Other + Not Stated
2 Hispanic Spontaneous Fetal Deaths is a separate count equal to Hispanic White + Hispanic Black + Hispanic Other + Hispanic Not Stated

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