Law abiding on the whole, however, they have not experienced a wave of crime.

The chief offences are those resulting from the saloons and denizens of vice, which are furnished by the community itself.
Disease has been one of their worst enemies, but reports on their health have been exaggerated.

On account of this sudden change of the Negroes from one climate to another and the hardships of more unrelenting toil, many of them have been unable to resist pneumonia, bronchitis and tuberculosis.

Churches, rescue missions and the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes have offered relief in some of these cases.

The last-named organization is serving in large cities as a sort of clearing house for such activities and as means of interpreting one race to the other.