Table 1.

Causes of death of 341 African Americans autopsied in the coroner/medical examiner office.¹

Causes of Death	Subjects, n	Percentage
Homicide	130	38.1
Natural Cause	107	31.4
Accident	90	26.4
Unknown	7	2.1
Suicide	5	1.5
Not Stated	2	0.6

¹Chronic alcoholism was listed for 15 subjects (the respective cause of death in each subject was ruled to be "natural cause"). Two subjects were reported to have diabetes mellitus; one had grade 3 hepatocyte and grade 1 Kupffer cell iron. No subject was reported to have iron overload, hemochromatosis, heritable or acquired forms of anemia, or treatment with erythrocyte transfusion.