Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-20

The doctor accounts for the number of deaths
the negroes from exposed and improvident life due
to a want of proper care. both in domiciliary &C
commodations and q general want OF PHYSICAL
comforts during inelement periods of the year
The venereal diseases also fruitful sources of
rapidly undermining the constitutions OF many ne
matism tuberculosis dropsies and all that class OF
diseases embraced under the general term maras-
mus or a general PIN sical debility.
There are two classes Of the negro population
as a fair illustration OF like conditions elsewhere
that are at a decided disadvantage in the struggle
for existence in comparison with the same classes
Of the white race TAe first is of that period fro
infancy until they pass the wholly dependent age,
Alter they pass beyond the time OF active espa-
bility and become dependent upon Others of
their own color, either from senile or acquired
debility.
/ give the number of deaths of five years and un-
der of both whites and blacks for the three years
in question. In 1850 there were 100 white and 2ll
black, and in lssi 2O4 white and $50 black. and
for the first nine months OF 1882 6s white and DO
black children of this class who died A large
poorest and most improvident class of people
of both races The record shows the
largest numbers credited to the group
tion, premature births. etc. proving that the
scnte diseases but to want Of domestic care and
those comforts which are essential t. the we'll
being of a child Many of the negro children
born in cities have the hereditary sypiitic tsint,
acquired from one or perhaps both parents.
and develop @ early stFnn6os % n sdaesconc
Nervous diseases and hysterical paroxysms from
menstrual suppression, nl-health from any 1rregn-
larity during and subsequent to labor, such as
eclamsia, puerperal fever, puerperal mania, etc.,
are less frequent with negro than white women.
hardy. and, consequence, less liable 10 patho-
logical conditions arising from nervous derange-
so sensitive TO pain liable to physical inhrmi-
ties through mental influences. 1t may be that a
and the influences incident to what are considered
the renements OF better social life, may develop
sequence the infirmities liable TO be induced
thereby. Negroes are seldom the subjects OF
chorea and epilepsy, is-insanity frequent or
varied among them with whites: the only types
of which have ever seen among them are those
of passive character-idiocy and dementia.
The doctor treats at length of the family rela-
tions, religious beliefs and mental susceptibility
exempt from malarial diseases, but is liable 10
yellow-fever, which is not fatal to them. and TO
attention to the large number OF stiii-births and
deaths from premature births among this class
rate rss Of Mem phisNwhich he attributes to iicen
tious mode of life, an Improper management OF
period by ignorant negro midwives.
The births report ed at the Memphis health office
nine months of 1859, white 26i black 2l6; this is
not correct. it falls short in both cases.
the opinion that If the birth rate of Memphis were
the only source of increase to the negro popula-
marked decadence within the period of ten years.
A paper on "An Epidemic OF Smallpox
by Direct importation from Germany" was
read by DIR. A. w. Ciriwell, of the Board OF
Health of Davenport, Ia.
The evening session was occupied with
Daoers on 'The Influences of Immigration
into the United States at Port Huron, Mich,
on the Public Health OF the West and North
wess,D BY II. R. Mills, Md, Of Port Huron,
Mich; on "The Cremation of Household
Refuse and Excreta," BY J. NJ. Keating, Of
Memphis, Tenn, and on "fhe Sanitary,
Physical and Educational Advantages of Open
Areas in Large Cities" by I. Newhall, Md,
of Providence, r L.
The presidsnt-eleet, DR.. Hunt, before put
ting the motion for final adjournment, said
the meeting had the best representative gath
eriDg OF sanitarians ever held. and that
the papers and discussions would compare
taYorably with those Of any kindred associ-