The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-08

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THE HEALTH DEpARTMENT.-The City Registrar,
has kindly sent us o copy of his Annual Report 70
City Council It comprises " O Return OF Deaths
with classification of the Disease, age, Sex
Status and Nativity of each case, for the year
ending December 81, 1866; together with Abstracts
Of the Barometer, Thermometer, Dew Point, WINGS
and Weather at Charleston, s. c., for the same
period; also the annual Report Of the Health De-
partment.
The foregoing title will give our readers some
idea of the vast fund Of information, to be gamer
ed from the pages of this pamphlet.
We have neither the time nor space to consider
this interesting mass of statistics in all its many
suggestive bearings, and therefore propose to give
only q summary of it's figures, The number OF
deaths from small pox, during the early months OF
1866, were 81 whites and 2s9 colored all OF these
occurred before August last, since which time
there has been no small pox in the city. We ind
deaths of whites, and none of colored, sat down
to Breakbone fever; 81 whites to congestion, and
"a to Typhoid Fever while Of colored people there
are reported cases Of congestive, and "a Of Ty-
phoid, from Hopping Cough killed 2 whites and
are set down to debility" and while there are
only II deaths reported from dropsy among whites,
there are II of colored. There were SO deaths
from commissions among negroes and only II among
whites % deaths of white infants from lockjaw,
while there were 40 of colored from that cause,
2G death of colored persons are put down from
ssneglect;" )" Sc from old age, while there are only
IA whites who were certified to have died because
OF old age. One of the headings in these printed
reports, as cause Of death is want Of vitality
In this the white man and the black seem to stand
very much alike. There we're Is Of the former and
II of the latter.
The entire number of deaths in Charleston dur
ing the past year was 607 whites and 1164 colored
Total It'll. Of these 1913 were natives of Charles
ton 485 natives Of this State; ITO natives of the
United States, and 1853 were foreigners. DR.. PEI
zER, the Registrar, estimates the entire population
of the city ut $1,000; the rate OF Immortality,
therefore, during the past year was (5O06) little
over per cent. or one in 19,774. The largest
number of deaths among whites was in August,
when it was r.; and the least in January and De-
cember, in each Of which it was only 80. Among
the negroes the mortality was largest in March,
when it was LAT, and least in November, when it
fell to 81.
When We come to examine the ages in the NOR
tuary reports, We find that, as usual infants under
one year old form the largest class. There we're
112 such last year alaong the whites, and 2s4
among the colored. From one to five years there
were 80, and 1853 colored. From twenty to thirty
there were 60 whites and 1856 colored The great
longevity Of the African has been long proverbia,
and this table forms no exception to what we have
for years been hearing. We here find that while
only 20 whites we're buried last year between the
ages of 70 and 80, there were So colored; from 80
to 80 there were II whites and 81 colored from so
to 100 whites and II colored. There were no
whites over 100 years, while We find six colored in
dividuals who had claimed this long tale Of years.
The total number Of cases treatedtin the Health
Department during 1856 was s095, of this number
41141 were whites, and 4,95s were colored, and
total mum II of deaths in the department Of all
classes 494. OF these III we're Whites and 97s
colored.
s There is as ne stated at the outset, o yast deal
in these tables, meritng close attention on the
part of the statesman, the philosopher and the
physician. But for the present we must bid adieu
IN the intareatinp namphlet