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Excerpt from Eighth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health, 1899-1900 The 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 some other States whose records can be depended ou - Ohio, for instance, where of 770 cases, only 7 died, or less than 1 per cent. Indeed our small-pox death rate has been quite respectable in view of the fact that many wiseacres have persisted in asserting that the disease was not small-pox hnt chicken-pox, Cuban itch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.