Report on the vital statistics of the United States : made to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York / by James Wynne.

  • James Wynne
Date:
1857
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Credit: Report on the vital statistics of the United States : made to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York / by James Wynne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    how do the arrivals at the two cities from foreign ports alone compare ? ring the year 1847 the total arrivals in the United States was 250,000, of whom 160,110 landed in New York—leaving but 90,000 for the rest of the United States. (Ibid.) Thus about two-thirds (66.44 per cent.) of all foreign immigrants lauded in New York. Again, from 1845 to 1848 inclu- sive, four years, 104,203 persons arrived from foreign ports in New Orleans —number considerably less than the population of New Orleans and La- fayette by the late census—while 556,209 arrived in New York, being more than the population of that city at the last enumeration. The attempt to excuse the grffat mortality of New Orleans by referring it to the vast number of immigrants landed in our city, is not sustained by the facts. * Are these ill-fated cities, in which mortality rages to such a fearful extent, dark spots in the midst of an otherwise sunny landscape, or do they bear in their high rate of mortality but a just comparison with the sur- rounding country ? Dr. Barton, of New Orleans, whose exertions, in all matters pertaining to public health and philanthropic objects, have been unwearied, has prepared a series of tables, from the information furnished to him by the marshal, which divides the mortality of the State, as col- lected by the United States authorities among the respective districts in which it occurred, and gives for the State of Louisiana a detailed statement, which should have been extended to the whole Union :— STATEMENT OF POPULATION AND DEATHS IN WESTERN LOUISIANA, 1S50. Inhabitants. Deaths from Cholera. Deaths pes Cent. Free. Slaves. 90,312 121,158 EASTEKN Inhab] i Total. 211,470 DISTRICT Total. 304,069 Free. Slaves. Without Cholera. With Cholera. 103 561 5.09 5.22 OF LOUISIANA, INCLUDING NEW ORLEANS. Deaths from Cholera. Deaths pee Cent. Free. Slaves. 181,30(3 122,790 Free. Slaves. 905 1040 Without Cholera. With Cholera. 3.23 4.34 * Simonds on the Sanitary Condition of New Orleans, p. 42.