416 VITAL STATISTICS. 



It is to be noted, first, tliat the unusual mortality in the Sand Hill 

 Region, in 1856, was confined to Kershaw County. Seventy-five negroes 

 died there from fever, while in the other three Counties of the region there 

 were only four deaths from this cause. It was, therefore, dependent not on 

 any general influence, but probably on some local and accidental cause, as 

 a new settlement and clearing on some stream, or the breaking of a mill- 

 dam in summer. 2d. The next largest percentage of deaths was on the 

 Coast, in 1858, and was due to Yellow Fever, from which cause there were 

 178 deaths in the City of Charleston, where the disease was imported, and 

 21 deaths in Christ Church, across the harbor, a health resort, to which 

 cases contracted in Charleston were doubtless taken for treatment, these 

 209 deaths in one locality being all that occurred in the State. There 

 Avere also 13 deaths on the Coast from Yellow Fever in 1857, the disease 

 being again imported, but not spreading. 3d. In this table is included 

 all the deaths that could have occurred from malarial or climatic causes, 

 and it is probable many that were not due to these causes, for the general 

 term fever may well cover many other sorts of fever than those in 

 question. 



But taking the figures as they stand it appears : 



1st. That the number of deaths from Typhoid and Pneumonia much 

 exceed those from malarial causes in South Carolina, even crediting the 

 imported disease, Yellow Fever, to the latter. 



2d. That if there is an excess of deaths from malaria in the loAver 

 country, it does not amount to more than 2.30 per cent., which would 

 make the malarial influences of that region rank as tenth among the 

 causes of death, or less than the number of infants overlaid and suffocated 

 b}^ their mothers. 



Of Yellow Fever it is to be remarked that the epidemics of this disease 

 are much less fatal in Charleston than in cities further North, as Norfolk. 

 Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and, above all, Boston, Avhere the largest propor- 

 tion of deaths to cases occur. Nor is its recurrence anything like as fre- 

 quent or its diffusion so great as in New Orleans and along the Missis- 

 sippi River. Intervals of over 40 years have occurred between its visita- 

 tions to the Carolina Coast, and it is almost invariabl}' confined to the 

 immediate locality into which it is imported. 



The following table shows the percentage of total mortality from speci- 

 fied causes in each race, resulting from causes that might in any wise be 

 termed malarial : 



