The Negroes of Columbia, Missouri; a Concrete Study of the Race Problem
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We give them in detail for what they are worth as information: accidents 4, bronchitis 3, croup 1, childbirth 1, cancer 1, cholera in- fantum 1, gangrene of lungs 1, la grippe 1, measles 1, senile debility 2, pneumonia 5, rheumatism 2, scarlet fever 1, spasms 1, inflammation of stomach 1, tonsilitis 1, tuberculosis 5, tumor 1, typhoid 6, whooping-cough 2, unknown (infants) 7. A further interesting but limited collection of data was furnished by Columbia's only negro physican, Dr. Perry, a man o...f education and ability in his profession. From January 1 to April 1, 1902, a most trying season of the year, Dr. Perry had under treatment the follow- ing 103 cases of diseases: asthma 1, aneurism 1, bron- chitis 1, convulsion 1, chronic gastritis 1, eczema 3, fe- male diseases 15, general dibility 8, heart disease 3, in- sanity 1, la grippe 6, pneumonia 11, rheumatism 6, smallpox 11, scarlet fever 5, sexual diseases 14, tonsilitis 5, tuberculosis 11. The notable things about these two lists are, first, the large number ill with and dying from lung troubles, pneumonia and tuberculosis; second, the large number under treatment for sexual diseases, chiefly gonorrhoea.
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