Medical statistics, or A comparative view of the mortality in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston, for a series of years : including comparisons of the mortality of whites and blacks in the two former cities : and of whites, free blacks, and slaves in Baltimore / by Nathaniel Niles, Jun. ... and John D. Russ ...

  • Niles, Nathaniel, Jr., 1791-1869.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Medical statistics, or A comparative view of the mortality in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston, for a series of years : including comparisons of the mortality of whites and blacks in the two former cities : and of whites, free blacks, and slaves in Baltimore / by Nathaniel Niles, Jun. ... and John D. Russ ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table showing the proportion of Deaths in Boston, by the following Diseases to the whole number of Deaths-and the proportion of Deaths, {stillborn excluded) to the Population. 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 43940 46490 49190 52050 55080 re ? — 3 S- o re.?^ g g 2 EL £o- I » T3 ■* -V5 'S-1? £, 182558281 1826 61^20 1014 |43.33 1319 35.24 1088 1045 1213 1362 1167 45.21 49 80 45.40 42.79 52.80 5.34 5 13 4.62 i.69 4 64 4.16 ~. td 3^ 13.70 17.35 19.08 21 32 § a 72 42 32.97 24.72 30.73 14.22120.65 20.03J19.73 19.45|16.43 32.70 36 66 43.52 61.47 46 65 45.40 27.13 Table XIII. This Table shows the relative proportion of Deaths among the Whites and Blacks, to their Population, in the Cities of JSew- York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. >< re p us Deaths timore, exclude Deaths Baltimc and Sla •=6 o 3 2 =- ? f Deaths ladelph exclude Deaths ladelph exclude Dtatl NewY exclude Death New-Y exclude 03O | o o s S g. •» among B toPopula d; as one among Fr re, to Pf ve9 exc.) a-j» p P Tin o •=« a E. — rep* among If a, to P d; as one among Bl a, to Po d) as one 9 among ork, to P d) as one s among ork, to P d) as one 3 o S. S3' I* a • ~ £5 = ? 03 ^1 ay 3. =, =ts g-gfl ?.n o M Em n p w -•re P 3S S 5 1 !r S-B re °\ lr S3' STB 1820 1821 1822 1823 '35.67 42.29 31.11 29.38 36.28 16.35 42.47 19 50 40.23 26 71 20.46 35.56 14.62 28.96 66.19 24.30 26.85 45.14 1824 102 29 31.52 39.68 51-48 16 98 30.40 16.81 39.37 1825 88.73 36.03 43.72 48.26 24.62 34.59 14.35 37.05 1826 53.92 28.69 33.32 41.16 23.53 32.34 17.53 38.58 Average... 77.78 32.08,33.34 39 99 19.4234.05 19.0140 17 This Table presents several important facts: 1st. The striking differ- ence in the proportion of Deaths among the Whites and Blacks. 2d. The still more striking; difference between the deaths of I he Free Blacks and Slaves in the city of Baltimore. 3d. The disproportionate number of deaths among the Blacks in the cities of New-York and Philadelphia, compared with Baltimore. The relalive physical incapacity of Negroes to sustain the influence of a severe climate, and the increased effect of poverty to diminish the chances of life in cold climates, are the most active causes in producing this result. It is probable that the disparity of deaths among the Blacks in New-York and Philadelphia to the Whites, is owiDg to the effects of poverty upon that degraded race. The same results from similar causes, but to a more limited extent, have been observed between the poor and wealthy sections of the city of Paris. The disproportion of deaths be- tween the Free Blacks and Slaves in Baltimore, is worthy of particular notice, and probably arises from the care bestowed on the slaves by their masters, their comparative temperance, and the more regular course of thcir lives, contrasted with the idleness, intemperance, and improvidence of the free blacks.