Eighth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Hea...
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Excerpt from Eighth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health, 1899-1900The total number of cases from the introduction of the disease into the State on January 12, 1898, to May 1, 1899, when the reports closed, was 616, with 17 deaths, or per cent. Of this number 182 were whites, with eight deaths, per cent., and 454 colored, with nine deaths, or per cent. This death rate is somewhat larger than appears to have been the case in so...