The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-26

TIC states IN It's relation to Life In
urance. while others of a still more
loo character have appeared in
Memphis a ID Mobile. The ninth
census of the United States and Gen
eral Nalker's Statistical Atlas of the
United States afford the most COM
p ehensive survey of the whole field,
n : characterized by a vastly
greater degree of accuracy and iudg-
ment than are found in a1y previous
government publicat o.. DIR. Orme's
paper is not befo !, us, but we think
that the figures the census of 1870
Will suffice for our pu ose.
Considering II e &c aral subject Of
mortality from al causes, we find the
pc centage In the fifteen Southern
States 20 be 1.23. while that of the
Whole United States, including the
Territories. (where the population
consists chiefly of active, vigorous
men, and lnfantiie diseases scarcely
exist for want of subjects is 1.28.
But three Southern States had a per-
ceI tage OF mortality exceeding the
national average ;-Louisiana 2, Mis-
souri, Lob, and Texas 1.31. In West
Virginia the percentage of mortality
was but 81, while in North Carolina
it was only SO, in South Carolina LOS,
- 4 pCs y \ 4 VI. -1I7SiSS
ippi LII, Tennessee Lis, Georgia 1.15.
Florida 1.21, Maryland and Virginia
1.24, and in Arkansas | 20.
The most powerful death agent in
the United States is consumption.
which destroyed Isl u of every 1O0,-
GOO persons in the Union. This dire
disease Is almost confined to the
Northern States. Gen. Walkers map
showing q broad band of heavy color
stretching from Maine far westward,
dipping Southwald into Maryland
Kentucky and Tennessee. with a patch
i'll unfortunate Louisiana. These
States only had q greater than the
average proportion # deaths from this
cause, the number in Kentucky and
Tennessee being 1S9. in Louisiana 1914
and in Maryland 115 out of each zoe. 00D
of the population. In Virginia there
were III. West Virginia I'll. Missouri
1913, North Carolina lis. South Caro-
lima 93, Arkansas 50, Mississippi and
Texas 81, Alabama rs. Georgia 70, and
Florida but 80. in the fifteen South
ern States the proportion was Only 12S
out of 100, 900 Again, it must be
borne in mind that the national aver
age is lessened, not only on account of
the low rate in the South. but also by
the western territories whose popula-
ton is exceptionally healthy and
vigorous. In the South. too, it is more
localized, large territories having
scarcely any cOnSumptiEeS. Most of
the deaths III Florida and Georgia are
those incurables who have sought too
late the relief of their genial climate,
and the same Is true of the high Blue
Ridge plateau of western North Caro-
lima.
Next to consumption in fatality
comes pneumonia, which we must
own ravages the South more than the
North, tie number of deaths resulting
from it in the whole United States
beir- 104 per 100, 600, while the South
eTa States average $50. This large
average of the South was chiefly due
to the 246 of Arkansas where it seems
to have ragged as an epidemic. though
other States were also above the aver
age. On the same basis the number
of deaths from this cause were 17S in
Louisiana. 16S in Missouri, 151 in Alan
bama. 147 in Texas, IA in Florida,
142 in Mississippi. 1l9 in Virginia. lis
in Georgia. 103 in Kentucky, and Ten
nessee. 101 in South Carolina, 95 in
MARYLAND, 50 in North Carolina and
but IS in West Virginia.
The diseases of cholera infantum,
Croup, w~hoOping- cough and measles,
thou not of Il esame class or genera,
NAV be grouped together for our con-
venience as '~infantile." The deaths
from these causes in the Southern
States were lie to each 100, 600 of the
population. wh''e they reached 12S in
the whole United s. tes. The range,
however. was consi' arable,-from 80
in West Virginia and Georgia, 90 in
~ all az ~, EJNrilo nnI South
Carolina. to les in Louisiana, III in
MARYLAND, and 1.3 in Missouri,-the
three latter being the only ones above
the aveTagH.
D;arrlona. dvsentaly and enteritis
carried off 81 cut ofthe same number
in the whole Uni. | States, but only
70 IN the Southern States, Missouri
with 1872 victims, Georgia So, Virginia
81. and Florida 60, were the only
Southern States having a greater pro-
portion than tie national aver &c.
louisiana. in spite of its large percent
ace of a'ity, had but IS deaths In
the hundred thousand from this cause.
MARYLAND and West Virginia had but
SO, Tennessee 80. Arkansas 63. Ken
tuckv 81, Texas 66. Alabama 81, North
Carolina IS. and South Carolina - to
every 100, 900 Of tie population.
Intermittent and remittent fevers
are particularly Southern IN their te.-
ri oral chara' Ter, the average being
SIS deaths from this aus out 10O,oot
population OF the Southern States aud
but 80 a the whole United States
Most of these occurred in the mala a
districts of Louisiana and Texas where
the average rose to lis. and tlorld'
wnera it was ia. Arkansas, MlSSIS
sippi acd Alabama had Re pectlve'y
81, II a Id 76, all above the average o
the Southern States. Missouri haC