Leading Causes of Death by County for 1998 Total Heart Disease% of Total Cancer % of Total Indiana 53,285 16,405 30.79%12,606 23.66% Adams 272 94 34.56% 57 20.96% Allen 2,472 770 31.15% 638 25.81% Bartholomew 585 179 30.60% 137 23.42% Benton 93 24 25.81% 31 33.33% Blackford 176 67 38.07% 38 21.59% Boone 392 110 28.06% 104 26.53% Brown 117 28 23.93% 40 34.19% Carroll 188 56 29.79% 36 19.15% Cass 419 124 29.59% 114 27.21% Clark 924 304 32.90% 214 23.16% Clay 276 93 33.70% 70 25.36% Clinton 374 131 35.03% 69 18.45% Crawford 112 41 36.61% 20 17.86% Daviess 322 75 23.29% 65 20.19% Dearborn 342 75 21.93% 100 29.24% Decatur 227 83 36.56% 38 16.74% Dekalb 342 114 33.33% 71 20.76% Delaware 1,118 376 33.63% 254 22.72% Dubois 331 115 34.74% 79 23.87% Elkhart 1,356 401 29.57% 304 22.42% Fayette 291 84 28.87% 66 22.68% Floyd 630 187 29.68% 139 22.06% Fountain 229 67 29.26% 60 26.20% Franklin 173 57 32.95% 43 24.86% Fulton 202 79 39.11% 43 21.29% Gibson 321 112 34.89% 83 25.86% Grant 804 265 32.96% 194 24.13% Greene 391 143 36.57% 78 19.95% Hamilton 798 212 26.57% 185 23.18% Hancock 450 141 31.33% 100 22.22% Harrison 279 94 33.69% 76 27.24% Hendricks 655 166 25.34% 155 23.66% Henry 527 154 29.22% 114 21.63% Howard 776 213 27.45% 192 24.74% Huntington 362 125 34.53% 82 22.65% Jackson 411 122 29.68% 94 22.87% Jasper 261 104 39.85% 43 16.48% Jay 236 74 31.36% 58 24.58% Jefferson 295 96 32.54% 66 22.37% Jennings 245 65 26.53% 65 26.53% Johnson 830 261 31.45% 197 23.73% Knox 471 136 28.87% 102 21.66% Kosciusko 578 176 30.45% 134 23.18% Lagrange 220 74 33.64% 46 20.91% Lake 4,631 1,461 31.55% 1,161 25.07% LaPorte 1,008 313 31.05% 249 24.70% Lawrence 472 132 27.97% 112 23.73% Madison 1,387 413 29.78% 303 21.85% Marion 7,583 2,127 28.05% 1,784 23.53% Marshall 368 118 32.07% 96 26.09% Martin 107 35 32.71% 27 25.23% Miami 313 106 33.87% 77 24.60% Monroe 679 174 25.63% 170 25.04% Montgomery 359 132 36.77% 79 22.01% Morgan 494 147 29.76% 131 26.52% Newton 132 41 31.06% 37 28.03% Noble 349 113 32.38% 81 23.21% Ohio 53 19 35.85% 12 22.64% Orange 226 71 31.42% 43 19.03% Owen 183 64 34.97% 47 25.68% Parke 164 59 35.98% 39 23.78% Perry 196 68 34.69% 47 23.98% Pike 154 50 32.47% 34 22.08% Porter 1,095 328 29.95% 268 24.47% Posey 226 90 39.82% 50 22.12% Pulaski 157 45 28.66% 40 25.48% Putnam 276 96 34.78% 70 25.36% Randolph 285 82 28.77% 61 21.40% Ripley 289 88 30.45% 63 21.80% Rush 188 62 32.98% 42 22.34% St. Joseph 2,449 708 28.91% 592 24.17% Scott 214 80 37.38% 37 17.29% Shelby 392 118 30.10% 88 22.45% Spencer 145 47 32.41% 27 18.62% Starke 272 85 31.25% 65 23.90% Steuben 292 93 31.85% 82 28.08% Sullivan 239 87 36.40% 61 25.52% Switzerland 81 23 28.40% 22 27.16% Tippecanoe 890 268 30.11% 228 25.62% Tipton 174 48 27.59% 41 23.56% Union 57 24 42.11% 15 26.32% Vanderburgh 1,885 615 32.63% 431 22.86% Vermillion 185 65 35.14% 45 24.32% Vigo 1,100 356 32.36% 263 23.91% Wabash 380 115 30.26% 88 23.16% Warren 74 23 31.08% 18 24.32% Warrick 427 144 33.72% 94 22.01% Washington 261 93 35.63% 68 26.05% Wayne 784 267 34.06% 147 18.75% Wells 251 79 31.47% 67 26.69% White 235 81 34.47% 53 22.55% Whitley 251 85 33.86% 57 22.71% Source: Indiana State Department of Health Indiana Business Research Center