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This increased .susceptibility to our continued types of 

 fever, as well as yellow fever, is a significant and interesting 

 point and will be brought out more fully when I show the 

 Consolidated Mortuary Record of Savannah from 1854 to 1883 

 inclusive. The above table also shows the uncertain state of 

 our nosology and the elasticity of our nomenclature. If you 

 can exclude typhoid fever you may call our continued types 

 of fever anything you please. 



The tenth census states as to typhoid fever, ' ' as causing a 

 somewhat greater proportion of deaths among the whites than 

 among the blacks, the figures being, for the whites, 33.9 and 



