| Title: | True North Strong & Free |
| Notice: | Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524 |
| Moderator: | POLAR::RICHARDSON |
| Created: | Fri Jun 19 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1040 |
| Total number of notes: | 13668 |
CAUSES of DEATH in CANADA 1992 (INDUSTRY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
and STATSCAN FIGURES, Canada Center for health information)
Circulatory 76,211
Cancer 55,668
Respiratory 16,663
Digestive 7,224
Endicrine/Metabolic 5,839
Nervous System 5,268
Mental 3,593
Ill-defined Conditions 3,166
Genito-Urinary 3,119
Infectious/Parasitic 2,744
Cogenital Anomalies 1,216
Perinatal Mortality 981
Musculo Skeletal 802
Blood/Organ diseases 726
Skin Tissue Disease 180
Pregnancy Complications 19
Motor Vehicle accidents 3,462
Falls 2,138
Poisoning 726
Suffocation 706
Fire/Flame 328
Water Transport 179
Medical misadventure 154
Nature/Environment 115
Air/Space transport 66
Firearms accidents 63
Railway accidents 32
Other accidents 832
Subtotal (All accidents) 8801
Subtotal (Suicide) 3709
Subtotal (Homicide,incl. Justifiable
by Police) 732
Total deaths 196,535
Population 27,408,900
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| 882.1 | :^) | BIGFAB::J_RILEY | Legalize Freedom | Sat Jan 14 1995 01:27 | 10 |
Pat,
After reading your note it would seem to me that Canadians have
little else to do but try different ways to kill themselves. Pass the
word around even vegging on the couch watching the tube is better than
dieing. But if dieing it's going to be send me a note and I'll tell
you a few ways that might be a bit more pleasant than the ones you
listed.
Joe
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| 882.2 | POLAR::RICHARDSON | G��� �t�R �r�z� | Sun Jan 15 1995 19:02 | 1 | |
This troubles me. | |||||
| 882.3 | DEATH | 45807::MOUNTFORDR | Mon Jan 16 1995 07:05 | 1 | |
WHAT A MORBID NOTE | |||||
| 882.4 | More than one way out... | POLAR::ROBINSONP | Liv'er on the edge | Mon Jan 16 1995 08:37 | 8 |
.0 is for information purposes only, and was inserted to balance
discussion in this file with respect to two certainties in Canadian
perspective, that is death and taxes.
Eat right, stay fit and...?
Pat
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| 882.5 | GVA05::ATKINSON | Just the facts kid | Tue Jan 17 1995 09:13 | 5 | |
DO YOU HAVE THE MURDER RATES BY CITY??
LOW (THANK GOD) WHEN COMPARED TO THE US.
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| 882.6 | POLAR::RUSHTON | տ� | Tue Jan 17 1995 13:14 | 41 | |
>>DO YOU HAVE THE MURDER RATES BY CITY??
>>LOW (THANK GOD) WHEN COMPARED TO THE US.
Don't have the latest, but two years ago the highest rate was in
Edmonton (3.3 homicides per 100,000 of population).
Although we have had this discussion in another file, it's worth
bringing up again. That is, you have to be careful when viewing these
rates. Quoting rates for a predominately suburban population versus those
for a predominately urban population, is similar to pissing in an
Olympic-size swimming pool versus doing the same in a small wading pool
- concentration.
A city like Ottawa has a higher homicide rate than Toronto. Why? More
bad guys? More weapons? No, and no.
Ottawa reports its homicide rate as a city not as a metropolitan area.
That is, the Ottawa Police report their homicide listing for the City
of Ottawa. Whereas Toronto's report is for the Metropolitan of
Toronto. Most crime, that is homicides, occur in the downtown core.
Thus, Ottawa's `concentration' is higher as opposed to the vast
suburban population of Metro Toronto.
I suspect that is one of the reasons why a relatively small city
(compared to Toronto and Vancouver) like Edmonton might have a higher
homicide rate.
By comparison with a city of the same population as Toronto, the city
of Baltimore, MD had about 450 homicides in 1986 (the last time I
stayed there for a month). That's 15 homicides per 100,000 of
population. The big, bad city of Edmonton had 3.3 per 100,000.
An interesting note from the same report was that the murder rate in
Canada has dropped over the years since 1967, the year the death
penalty was repealed. But incidences of violence have risen. I
wonder, if we had more guns maybe we could raise that murder rate a
bit.
Pat (the other one)
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| 882.7 | Not htis again | TROOA::SOLEY | Fall down, go boom | Tue Jan 17 1995 14:53 | 8 |
We've had this arguement before but I don't think we could call it
settled. Metropolitain Toronto is urban, as urban as the City of
Ottawa, it makes perfect sense to compare the two on a per capita basis.
If you want to make a comparision that includes a suburban component
compare the 3 GTA regions, Toronto, Peel, and Durham to Ottawa region.
In either case the numbers are so low that they are statistically
invalid.
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