The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-13
4 SPLENDID SANITARY SHOWING.
The Health Of Charleston During inc
Past Summer-Can Any Other Ciay
Show as Clean q Record

The calendar summer has now endeo, anu
with It has disappeared the last possible ap-
prehension that may have existed OF q sickiy
season. A retrospect by any one OF our feau,
era of the health of his OWN neighooEnoou
during the past three months will prove 10 mn
that the condition of the public health HAS
been exceptionally good, and toe physicians
and clergymen, than whom no class OF citlzens
bo1e hotter opportunities for forming a cor
rect Judgment, unanimously agree maj tne
season has been one of the healthiest ever
known in Charleston. MOI Is 1t only IN COM
harrison with former seasons IN charleston
that this summer may be declared an ex-
tremely healthy one, for this might imply
that the usual or average health OF Charleston
during the summer months Is poor, Wnlcn
would BIZ very far from the truth. the iact 10
that Charleston is one ct the very healthlest
cities in The whole country, and this Stale.
ment ia not made without careful comparison
and ample means of verlhcalion. In case the
Journals of any other city between which and
Charleston any comparison can be oraWn
are inclined to doubt this assertion, q NEWS
furnishes below the vital statistics OF the re-
cent season in &C Charleston, and invites q sllHl-
lar exhibit from such Journals, promising q
fair and candid discussion Of THE question anu
a frank bestowal of the palm of sanitary su-
p~eriority on any city which may deserve IL.
To make the co comparison at all a fair one tne
connecting city should be not much smaller
,han Charleston, should be between the 3olh
and 4Oth parallels of latitude, and should nave
a population composed partly OF .coiorea
people. A comparison with very small COM
munity would be obviously unjust to Charles
ton, as the causes of disease increase in more
than a direct ratio to the increase OF popula-
ton. A comparison with cities North OF Ma
son & Dixon's line would probably be Unfair
to Charleston, although The NEWS believes
that we could stand 1t, and a comparison Win
a city composed wholly OF white persons
would be an absurdlty, in view OF the fact that
sixty-ave per cent. of the disease and deatns
In Charleston are among lts.negro population.
The cities which come within the above cate
CORY are Richmond, Louisville, Washington,
New Orleans, Baltimore and 81. Louis. The
cities of Memphis, Mobile and Savannah may
also be included, although, by The latest CEN
sus, those cities have each from ten To twenty
thousand less Inhabitants than Charleston.
The principal statistics OF the health OF
Charleston are to be found in Its official NOR
tuary returns, and 1t is from this source that
our figures are now drawn. 1t Is not, as q
general thing, cheerful to contemplate the
statistics of deaths, aud to individual mourn
ers 1t may seem cold comfort to show that the
fatalities we're few and far between; but 1t Is
surely a matter OF congratulation, and even Of
tervent gratitude, to find that In a population
of over fifty thousand souls, and during the
three hottest months Of the year, the deaths
of white adults from disease amounted to only
seventy.tw an average of but little more
than five per week, and of less b QUE per
dsy. The deaths OF white children reached
one a day, and there were during the sum-
mer eleven deaths from external causes, but
the average mortality among the whole white
population of all ages and from every cause
amounted to an average of about thirteen per
week. or less than two per day. All of these
facts and others OF no less interest and signlf-
canoe are 10 be found in the following careful
ly aud patiently prepared