Of the 46 persons who died in Durham county from all causes during November, nine died from pneumonia and seven died from kidney disease, according to (the) monthly of Mrs. Elizabeth O’Kelley, registrar of the division of vital statistics of the health department. Three died from cancer, two from tuberculosis, one from scarlet fever, six of organic heart disease, and two from softening of the brain. Thirteen deaths were of persons over 60 years of age. Twenty-nine white persons died as compared to 17 negroes.
Births greatly outnumbered deaths, according to the report, a total of 63 being reported—51 whites and 12 colored. This shows that the colored mortality rate is greater than the birth rate and that the white birth rate exceeds the mortality rate.
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, December 9, 1923
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