various forms of scrofula are rapidly developed in those having this proclivity. It is very uncertain as to the time when a patient once attacked may be said to have entirely recovered.

The following statement is the only one attainable, and may be considered an approximation to the truth, it is

An Abstract of the Returns of the Register of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, for 1868-69, West Virginia.

TABLE XIV.—Showing the Number of Deaths from Various

44

Heart, disease of. 1868. {male 24) 1859. {13}

Measles

Old age
Paralysis

27

11

30

12

73

38

33

11

70

83

50

20

TABLE XV.-Showing Number of Deaths of each Sex at different

TABLE XVI.-Deaths in each month during the years 1868-1869.

REPORT

ON THE

CLIMATOLOGY AND EPIDEMICS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

BY

MANNING SIMONS, M.D.,

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA