North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-06
MEDICAL REPORTS.

sonv of this work, for the year 1850, has bee
nan onr table. It is edited by DR.. E. u. on
If New Orleans, and is highly useful WORK
its kind. 80 .her of Genera
cnecal Reports on the Medical topography
aD' 5;saases S,c ofmost of the Southern states
,ho S,ecial Reports we notice with pleas
'H' :',-..,;nr and able articles from the pen
"' -: III Mckee, of this City-one on the
W. m...--.nbv- prevailing diseases &c. of Raleigh
IT. ether on the Z" Vital Statistics of North Ca
'n - From the latter we make the following ex'
ract eu,, : e..
- The number of whites; second, that OF the
sAaGroes: third, that of the slaves. The number
zee hie deaths with their ratio. and that OF the free
OIL VS. and slaves with their Deaths per cent, and
nopulation of the county with the aggregate
the O' Whites IA, 236; free negroes, 1850; slaves
Po deaths of whites, lib; per cent, 1913 Tree ne
%fi",d slaves III ; per cent, I.60l. Total popu-
If the county, including all classes, "a ,9l5
al ,hs ner cent Il39. The mulattoes are included
18th the blacks"
rrJoro follows table exhibiting the number who
ii ,ritbin the last ten years, under ten years OF
u' and over ten to that of hundred, as per the
'rt census returns. OF these,-l45 were under 10
w.. Of age. There were, also. 10 deaths from I'M
known causes.I
This renor shows over fifty pei cent. of the deaths
bunder ten years of age, while the list OF diseases
bibts very large per cent of the deaths from DIS
a If The respiratory organs, and droPsles appearing
ea H. nevt HIGHEST in order, with the exception OF
a. 49, reoorted as unknown and chronic. 1t is to be
rrpted that so large number OF unknown cases
lid have occurred, but from the large per cent In
sr If the infantile diseases it may be fairly pre-
nmed that the greater part of them were children.
Tho only way in which accuracy In these cases Is to
h. come at is through strict registration OF the mar
aGes births and deaths.
Twill now present the five other counties, with
bpir population and per cent. OF deaths, which are
.mnrsed as Middle North Carolina.
The white population of
Erukrn is g. a06-saves 5,5O7; total 1l,713. Deaths
1872; per cent. l.O4l.
Oarge is ii ,97I-slaves 1855 total ~ 1876 Deaths
1873; per cent OTIS.
Chatham is I2,479-slaves 5000; total 1881.
Deaths 1874 per cent. l.O0l.
Cumberland is l., 393-saves 1917; total 20,6l0.
Deaths 234 per cent. Lbs.
Lbuson is 9O53-slaves APO; total ID 1928. Deaths
l24; per cent. $500.
The total number of deaths In the above five coun-
ties is 1917 the population is 81 SOB per centof the
whole O976. Add that or Wake, 24,9I5, and we
have within the six central counties population OF
IO65ls, and whole number of deaths l.09I per
cent. of deaths, lob.
see from an article published in the New Orleans
Medical Journal, by Dr. Pendleton, of Sparta. Ga,
Georgia he reports the total population of these
counties 10 be 72,94l whole number of deaths, -
1917 per cent. of deaths, Isl and he further states
that is doutless fair indication for the whole Of
Middle Georgia, and will compare faVouraby with any
other portion of the civilized world
By consulting the above returns, ii will be at
once that the six Counties in Middle North Carolina
have population of SIT than that of the six
counties of Middle Georgia, while the whole number
Of deaths in Georgia exceeds that of North Carolina
BY % per cents
large per cent in favor of Middle North Carolina
all other places and while | have been prompted to
submit the above statistical inform alton, it is with
desire deract from any other section of the
try but aid in contributing to the limited stock of
cur Southern reports upon this subject with the hope
that it may add interest to the vital data of the
South.
In taking the per cent. of Middle Georgia as the
most favorable and comparing it with that of Mid
die North Carolina have not done with the wish
intention detract from the healthy character of
Georgia, but to show that in Middle North Carolina
we have health if not more, at least equal to any
country in the civilized world The reports made
by DR.. Pendleon and myself go prove conclusive
that the long conceived opinion that the South dur
ing the summer months in particular, is more IN
healthy than other sections of the country.
Gus. Indeed far from being true, this opinion is
entirely the reverse of it, and if the census returns
are at all to be relied uPo they hold out the districts
comprised in Middle Georgia and Middle North Ca
rofna among the heathiest regions in the world.
Raleigh, ". c., Feb. 2OfH, 1850.
*Dr. Mckee here inserts a tabular statement from
the statistics of Drs PenGeton and Simonds, which
may be found in Dr. Pendeton's report for Georgia.
We omit it to avoid repetion.-ED.