South Carolina child fatalities annual report 1993-2000

Abstract

This summary details the data of child fatalities in the state of South Carolina for the years 1998 and 1999 and provides basic profiling of some of the child deaths from 1993 through 1999. Over the five years from 1993 to 1997, there seemed to be a downward trend of child deaths from 891 to a low of 809 respectively. This trend has now started to turn upward with 822 deaths in 1998 and 857 in 1999.