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TABLE 45:

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Fig 27

Note: SMR-Standardized Mortality Ratio. Refer to Figure 1 to clarify geographical location of Local Health Areas.

• In 2000, there were five Local Health Areas (LHAs) with statistically significant and high Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR) for drug-induced deaths. These five LHAs and their SMRs for drug-induced deaths in 2000 (number of drug-induced deaths in parentheses) were:
  

  162	Vancouver Downtown E. Side	8.16	(38)
  014	Southern Okanagan	3.87	(5)
  040	New Westminster	2.28	(10)
  042	Maple Ridge	2.05	(11)
  061	Greater Victoria	1.90	(32)

• Vancouver Downtown E. Side, New Westminster, and Greater Victoria had statistically significant and high SMRs in the five-year period from 1995 to 1999.

• In 2000, 32 LHAs had no drug-induced deaths and there were no LHAs with statistically significant and low SMRs (based on five or more deaths).

• There were six LHAs with statistically significant and high SMRs in the 1995-1999 period. The SMRs for these LHAs (number of drug-induced deaths in parentheses) were:
  

  162	Vancouver Downtown E. Side	7.84	(312)
  040	New Westminster	2.14	(80)
  161	Vancouver City Centre	2.10	(154)
  165	Vancouver Midtown	1.52	(89)
  061	Greater Victoria	1.42	(189)
  163	Vancouver North East	1.30	(78)

• In the 1995-1999 period, 16 LHAs had statistically significant and low SMRs (based on five or more drug-related deaths). The five LHAs with the lowest SMRs (number of drug-induced deaths in parentheses) were:
  

  059	Peace River South	0.39	(7)
  027	Cariboo-Chilcotin	0.40	(7)
  037	Delta	0.42	(26)
  069	Qualicum	0.44	(10)
  038	Richmond	0.48	(49)

• Four LHAs had no drug-induced deaths in the 1995-1999 period. These were Fernie, Golden, Snow Country and Stikine/Telegraph Creek. They also had no drug-induced deaths in 2000.