VITAL STATISTICS. 



407 



June is foremost in plurality births, and January stands lowest of all. 

 Of 982, the total number, 512 were males, and 470 females, or 108.93 of 

 the former to 100 of the latter. 



Still-Births. — The races in these tables are given separately only for 

 the year 1859. In this j^ear there were 403 children registered as born 

 dead. Of these 139 were whites, or one child was lost out of every 40.80 

 births ; and of negroes there Avere 264, or one out of 54.46, whilst in the 

 whole number of births in the total population, one was still-born in 

 every 49.76. This would give 2.4 per cent, of the white births, and 1.8 

 of the negro births still-births : 



Still-Born for Four Years. 



o 



139 

 264 



403 

 565 



Whites 



Negroes 



Total in 1859 . . 

 Total in 1856, '57, '58 



Total in four years. , 



915 



2617 



lojlO 

 16.27 



12 



11 



15 20j24 32 



21 35 32 



41 58|40 



2829 

 3550 



5883 



629372 



94,95 85 



75 



63 79 



94 968 



For a series of years, January gave almost uniformly the fewest still- 

 born as well as plurality and also total births. July, June, December 

 and April produced each nearly the same number of still-births, and a 

 good many more than the months next highest to them. There are 

 more still-born negroes in December and fewer in March, wiiile among 

 the whites there were most in August and least in November. 



'''There is a remarkable preponderance of males in the still-births. 

 This pre})onderance is greater in the Avhite than in the negro race. In 

 the former the still-born were 162.33 males to 100 females. In the latter 

 there were only 118.18 males to 100 females. For the two races during 

 the whole 4 years the still-born were 121.54 males to 100 females. 



*NoTE. — It is supposed the sex is determined b.v the preponderance of the sexual im- 

 pulse in the sexes at genesis. If the female impulse is strongest for the male, males 

 are produced; if the male impulse for the female is strongest, females are i)roduced ; 

 and the number of males preponderating among the still-born is another among the 

 many natural checks to a strong sexual impulse among females, 



