The Colored Race 



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In my first paper, in conjunction with the above consolidated 

 mortuary record of Savannah, I composed the returns I was 

 able to get from Charleston, New Orleans, Richmond, Nash- 

 ville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, and I found results tallying 

 fairly well with those of our own city. I give here a table 

 showing the relative death rate in six cities, where there is 

 a sufficient colored population to make a comparison, for the 

 census year 1879-80. 



I have not been able to obtain a sufficient number of 

 reports from other cities to carry out, as it should be done, a 

 comparative statement of the mortality records, nor does it 

 come within the scope of this paper to do so. It is sufficient 

 for my argument that they all bear testimony to a large mor- 

 tality among the colored and greatly in excess of the whites. 

 Of course I am aware that the mortality falls outside the 



