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which decides virtuall}' the general mortality, and on the 

 contrarx', the reduction of this infant mortality points to a 

 higher vital equation. I give here a table showing the rela- 

 tion of the mortality up to the fifth year to the total mortality 

 for the colored for the last nine vears. 



These figures show that about 41 deaths out of 100 occur 

 before the fifth year.* Here is a similar table showing the 

 white mortality : 



* To quote to any extent from the Tenth Census in the relation of 

 age to deaths would swell this paper beyond its proper limits. If the 

 reader can refer to Section IV, p. xxiv, Vol. XI of this Census, he 

 will find some interesting tables, not only comparing the cities with 

 the rural districts, our own states with the countries of Europe, but also 

 the two races in those parts of our country where the colored exist in 

 any number. The two tables on p. xxxii give the proportion of deaths 

 for each age or groups of ages for white and colored, and show the 

 much greater mortality of the colored under one year, and under the 

 fifth year. 



"In the southern groups, among the colored population, over half 

 the deaths of males reported, or 507.16 per 1000, under 5 years of age, 

 and for colored females, 438.47 deaths out of every 1000 reported are 

 under 5 years." The greatest mortality among infants under one 

 month occurs in Charleston, where the deaths for white males are 

 571.4, and for the white females 647.7 of each 1000 deaths under one 

 year. 



