An oration, delivered before the Medical Society of South-Carolina : at their anniversary meeting, Dec. 24th, 1807 : and published at their request / by Joseph Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Joseph, 1776-1862.
Date:
1808
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Credit: An oration, delivered before the Medical Society of South-Carolina : at their anniversary meeting, Dec. 24th, 1807 : and published at their request / by Joseph Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2$ feet, be, nevertheless, useful. The want of a regular system for affording acorrect know- ledge of the diseases will now be felt and probably remedied. The number of newly imported Africans swells our bills of mortali- ty to so great an extent, that I congratulate you on the time approaching when that ag- gravation will cease ; they now compose one half of all the deaths in the year. Even the proportion of deaths among themselves has greatly increased; at first a twenty-ninth part of the number imported died; but now a fourteenth of the whole. The diseases and deaths in the year 180, are only recorded from the first of July, yet this defect affords some light. It proves that a great proportion of deaths from Tetanus and Worms occurs in the summer months : That Convulsions, Puhnonick Affections, Apoplexy, and Sore Throats, are much more fatal in the first part of the year. The proportion of deaths among children is distressing; one fifth, and in some years one fourth of ail that are born, die un- der five years of age. The proportion of such deaths is likewise increased in the summer season, as we observe them rated at nearly