September 18, 2005 Deceased Victims Update 9-18-2005September 18: Updated Number of Deceased Victims Resulting from Hurricane Katrina

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490 are at the morgue in St. Gabriel

Parish Coroners:

     Assumption -- 2

East Baton Rouge – 63

Iberia – 6

Jefferson – 30

Livingston -- 4

Plaquemines -- 3

St. Charles – 5

St. Tammany – 7

Tangipahoa -- 20

Terrebonne -- 14

      West Baton Rouge – 2

 

Any death that is determined to have been caused as a result of Hurricane Katrina will be counted as a hurricane-related death. For example, this applies to people who drowned as well as people who required life-support but had it cut off and died as a result when power was lost during the storm.

Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, M.D.

Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein

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