It is a point that bears directly on our labor question, and for that reason I wish to call special attention to this table, which is taken directly from the census: ANNUAL DEATH RATE FOR EACH THOUSAND OF POPULATION New York 17.38 Pennsylvania 14.92 Virginia 16.32 Massachusetts 18.59 Kentucky 14.39 Georgia 13.97 Alabama 14.20 Mississippi 12.89 Mississippi has the smallest average death rate of any of that number of States which I have enumerated.
Q.I suppose the circumstance that the average death rate is larger in cities ought to be taken into account, the Southern population being mostly rural, is it not?
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The Southern population is to a very great extent rural--Still there are cities in Georgia which I suppose in proportion to our rural population would not make the latter in excess of what it is here.

If you take your rural population here and in New Jersey, where you are densely populated, we are no more densely populated in the proportion of our city population to the country than you are here, I think.
Q.Of the population, which is, as a rule, the more healthy in the South, the colored or the white population?
By Mr.PUGH: Q.There must be some qualification of that difference between the death rate between such States as Massachusetts, for instance, and Georgia, on account of the fact--which I suppose must be conceded--that in these new States population is younger and more vigorous than in the older States.

The emigration to these States has been of the younger and more vigorous population, not so liable to die as those who remain behind and are older?
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There has been but very little emigration into these States up to this census.
MR.PUGH.That is the fact to some extent, I suppose, anyway.
The CHAIRMAN.