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one-fourth of this population is in the City of Charleston, where an ac- 

 curate system of the registration of deaths makes the mortality returns 

 more complete than they are anywhere else, except in twenty-two of the 

 large cities, w^here the same measures are in force. The colored race 

 also forms seventy-three per cent, of the population in these regions, 

 against sixty per cent, for the State at large . 



Table B. — Percentage of Total Deaths occiirrmg under 1 Year, vnder 6 

 Years, and vnder all Ages among the Male and Female Fopidcdion of 

 the United States and of Soidli Carolina, and in the TJf.pcr, 3Iiddle,and 

 Loiver Counti^ of the latter. 



The number of deaths under five years of age amount to sixty-three 

 per cent, of all deaths in the country at large, and to nearly seventy per 

 cent, in South Carolina, due to the excess of infant mortality in the 

 colored population. The excess of female over male deaths is due in 

 part at least to the preponderance of females in South Carolina. 



