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The distribution of the popuhition according to Avinter temperature, or 

 the mean temperature of January, taken as the coklest month, is as 

 follows : 



PERCENTAGES OF 



Foreign. Aggregate. Netiro. 



Below 10° 1.80 1. 0.01 



10° to 30° G3.94 50. 5.39 



30° to 50° 29.1G 44. 82.58 



Above 50° 5.10 5. 12.02 



100.00 100.00 100.00 



Here again the negro has a more restricted distribution in the more 

 temperate regions than the foreigner, whose percentages exceed those of 

 the aggregate in the extremes of both heat and cold. 



The distribution of the population according to the greatest observed 

 heat is as follows : 



PERCENTAGES OF 



Foreign. Aggregate. Negro. 



Below 90° 3.59 ^ 0. 0.07 



90° to 105° 91.87 94. 96.53 



Above 105° 4.54 6. 3.40 



100.00 100.00 100.00 



The extreme high temperatures here referred to are much more fre- 

 quent at the North than at the South, and the result is shown by the 

 numerous deaths from sunstroke at the North every summer. Such heat 

 does occur at rare intervals at the' South, and it is equally as fatal here, 

 as witness the deaths in Charleston in June, 1876, when the hottest day 

 in more than a century occurred. 



The' distribution under the extremes of cold observed is : 



PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION. 



Foreigners. Aggregate. Colored. 



Below — 45° 0.09 0. 



—45° to 10° 92.52 80. 33.88 



10° to 20° ..... , 4.53 19. 66.00 



Above 20° 2.86 1. 0.12 



100.00 100.00 100.00 



The remarks made regarding other climatic conditions apply here also ; 

 the negroes occupy the medium and temperate regions, the aggregate 

 population comes next, and on the outside, in the extremes, are the 

 foreign born. 

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