New York, with about the same population as New Orleans, has about two-thirds as many deaths per 1,000 Norfolk has twice the rate of Indianapolis.Īn analysis of the Negro population in these cities, however, gives the North a decided advantage, in that the number of children is less in the North than in the South and since the first five years of life have a very high mortality, that section having a smaller proportion of children all other things being equal, ought to show the lowest general crude death rate…. Thirty deaths per 1,000 seems to be the dividing line between the Northern cities and the Southern, most of the Southern cities having a rate above 30, while most of the Northern cities have a rate below 30.Ĭhicago, with about the same population of Negroes as Charleston and Nashville, has less than one-half as many deaths per 1,000 as the former and two-thirds as the latter. The crude death rates of the Negroes in the Northern cities are lower than those in the Southern cities… of the large cities, the eight highest death rates are Southern cities-Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Richmond, Norfolk, Nashville, St. THE GENERAL OPINION IS THAT THE DEATH RATE OF NEGROES is higher in the North than in the South.
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