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VITAL STATISTICS. 



Table C. — Percentages, of Deaths in the United States and in South Carolina, 

 and in the Upper, Middle, and Lower Country of the latter, o'esnlting from 

 ten principal Diseases. 



Table " C " exhibits the causes of death, and shows that the most fatal 

 diseases are less potent in South Carolina than elsewhere. The data, as 

 regards malarial diseases, are not given. But deaths from this cause are 

 only 2.7 per cent, of the total deaths for the country at large, and 6.5 per 

 thousand in the grand group, where it is most prevalent, being in New 

 Orleans itself only 4.4 per cent., are less than the deaths in the country 

 at large from diseases of the digestive organs. The percentage from con- 

 sumption in Carolina is doubtless much larger than it should be, the 

 numbers being increased by the deaths of transient visitors, having this 

 disease, to health resorts in this State, as well as by the permanent settle- 

 ment here of many persons bringing the disease with them, in the hope 

 that they may find relief in the mildness of this climate. 



