Extinction of the Negro.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2914, 2 June 1888, Page 3

Extinction of the Negro.

jjdii a lecture delivered before the ™rgia historical Society on June 6, 1887, and published in the New York Medical Times, Dr E. B. Corson, of Savannah, reviewed the causes which wero leading, apparently, to the extinction of the negro as a separate race in America, While they were held as (slaves lliey were caved for, as it was to the direct interest of the master to keep lliem in good health, They lived a regular life, and when sick had the most skilled medical attendance, Now, however, they flock to the cities, live in crowded quarters, are given to excess of all kinds, and are seldom able to obtain as good medical care as they did formerly, At that time, too, tho colored man could boast of his insus-

ceptibility to malaria and yellow fever, and even pulmonary phthisis was comparatively unknown to him, Now, Dr Corson states, this immunity is no more, The negro suffers almost equally with the white from malarial diseases, ptigibly as a consequence of the contiflplly increasing admixture of white blood; and the mortality from pulmonary consumption is, as is wellknown, almost double that among the whites, Infant mortality among the ' negroes is very large, owing in great measure to the utter neglect of the most elementary hygienic and dietetic

precautions on the part of those who ft, have the cave of young children.—N.Y, Medical Record,