Charleston. Memphis. Nashville. Savannah. 1883. 5.88 3.75 5.65 7.59 21.03 13.91 12.44 18.01 1884. 6.48 4.47 5.46 6.54 16.52 15.63 11.55 16.68 1885. 4.45 4.67 4.37 4.23 14.38 13.46 10.78 13.70 "The per cent. of increase for the total population from 1870 to 1880 was 30.08--white, 29.30; black, 34.67. To show the relative increase between the two races at the South, I take from the last official census the three Southern States--Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi--which may be accepted as a fair criterion for the rest of the South. Rate of increase in these, taken as one State--white, 23.90; black, 33 per cent. It is still more apparent, in South Carolina, because it is less affected by immigration from other States, and shows more accurately the natural increase. There it is 45.33 for the blacks, and for the white population, 35 per cent." Comment on Negro Vital Statistics. The foregoing facts are very startling and should arouse every intelligent Negro and every friend to the race, to devise a way by which this awful wave of death shall be checked. The history of all civilizations presents seeming unaccountable vital statistics. All races passing into civilization have increase in both birth and death rates. But the case of the Negro in the United States is one deserving profound study. It presents many seeming contrarieties, hardly met elsewhere. The question naturally arises, What shall be done to check this harvest of death? Begin in the school room. Teach the children sound sanitary principles. Begin in the pulpit. Let the minister constantly call attention to this matter and advise a way out of it. Begin the work in all the societies of the race. Establish and maintain schools for nurses and to teach the general principles of housekeeping. The demand is great for competent colored male and female physicians--especially female, as the work must be largely among the women of the race. An organization for the promotion of the sanitary condition of the Negro should be started, and its work vigorously prosecuted. They must be induced to seek better houses, better clothing, better food, and have better care of their bodies. I have known men who would get up every rainy night in the year, and pull their beds from under a leak in the roof, or who would lay abed and the wife set pans and buckets on them to catch the water, rather than bestir themselves two hours in patching the roof. Then I have seen some handsome looking women, most handsomely attired in beautiful white dresses or costly cloaks, hats and feathers, and I have often wondered where they would find a decent place in their homes for those articles