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This table would seem to confirm the general impression that negroes 

 are less injuriously subject to malarial influences than whites. But this 

 impression requires important modification when it is stated that deaths 

 from Yellow Fever is included in the table. It being a question here of 

 a large section of country, it is not proper to include a disease that never 

 occurs except in one or two restricted localities of that region, and which 

 is far more fatal in these localities to foreigners than to natives or resi- 

 dents of either race. If, therefore, deaths from Yellow Fever be excluded 

 from the table, it will stand thus: 



Thus in 23,770 deaths from specified causes, the white race in Soutii 

 Carolina seems to have suffered from malarial influences more than the 

 black race by four-tenths of one per cent., a difference which amounts 

 literally to nothing. 



It is noteworthy that in the ratio of deaths from specified causes to 

 total deaths reported in 1860, under the head of fevers. South Carolina 

 stands ninth, while Kansas stands first. 



According to the mortuary statistics of Kentucky for eight years, 

 South Carolina for four years. New Orleans for two years, fever, including 

 congestive, remittent and intermittent fevers, caused 4.85 per cent, of the 

 deaths among whites, and 7.82 per cent, of the deaths among negroes. 



