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Excerpt from The Vital Statistics and Sanitary Condition of Memphis, Tenn: An Anniversary Address, Delivered by Appointment, Before the Memphis Medical Society, on the 5th of February, 1852
How little dependence is to be placed on mere Opinions, and on statements predicated on one's own observation, when compared with the facts demonstrated by figures, we shall have occasion to elucidate by the details I shall presently submit in your hearing.
It is to be regretted that so little attention has been paid, in this city, to the registration of the dead. In this. As in many other matters of importance to the well-being of society, we are lamentably behind the times and the age in which we live. Antecedent to the year just passed, there is no record, so far as I have been able to learn, of the deaths that have taken place in any previous year. The book furnished by the City Council for the use of the Secretary of the Board of Health, and admirably arranged for the purposes for which it is intended, bears the marks of having been mutilated, and most of the records destroyed, before it passed into the hands of either of the gentlemen who acted as Secretaries for the Board during last year; leaving nothing of any consequence, except the returns kept by them, for our information and instruction.
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