ABSTRACT
My communication in the May Number of your Review on “Life Insurance at the South,” had reference only to the white population. * I now, in compliance with your request, give you a few remarks on the value of life among the colored population, which is becoming a very important subject for consideration. My time is much occupied with yellow fever, and I might very fairly claim indulgence for the hasty and imperfect manner in which I am performing my task; but I may, with still more propriety, offer as an excuse a deficiency of material, from the universal neglect of VITAL STATISTICS in the United States. We have already seen that there is by no means a redundancy of information as regards the whites; but the neglect, North and South, of statistics of blacks, is positively disreputable in this enlightened epoch.
