Hurricane Katrina

Aftermath Statistics/Demographics

I just posted an article by Cathy Young at the Boston Globe, but I thought I'd also share some of the stats I gleaned from the article. The stats are from Knight Rider & The Times Picayune, a prominent New Orleans newspaper:

42 percent of the bodies found in Orleans and St. Bernard parishes were recovered in neighborhoods with poverty rates higher than 30 percent.

African-Americans outnumbered whites 51 percent to 44 percent. In the area overall, African-Americans outnumber whites 61 percent to 36 percent.

People 60 and older made up about 15 percent of New Orleans residents but 74 percent of known victims.

According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, an analysis of -block-by-block census data and flood maps suggests that about half of the city's white residents experienced serious flooding, compared with three-quarters of African-Americans,

Targeted List of 400 Homes to be Rechecked

The state medical examiner said Thursday that about 400 addresses will be turned over to New Orleans police and fire officials to be checked again for people reported missing after Hurricane Katrina. The addresses were culled from the list of 3,200 people still officially unaccounted for nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Continue

More Arrests Expected in Katrina Hospital, Nursing Home Deaths

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - There may be more arrests in the investigation into deaths at nursing homes and hospitals during and after Hurricane Katrina.

The Louisiana attorney general's office said Friday that some patients may have been euthanized to spare them more suffering.

Only two people have been arrested so far. The husband and wife who own a St. Bernard Parish nursing home are charged with negligent homicide for the deaths of 34 people who were in the home when flood waters rose.

The state is now investigating six hospitals and 13 nursing homes. The special unit has 18 investigators and four lawyers.

The attorney general's office has previously confirmed that records and other material were seized from Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, where 34 patients died after the hospital was cut off by flood waters.