The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19

SO years. Next to them, the total
abstinence people may be surprised to
learn, came the distillers, IS years. The
following died at an age above the
average for all the classes together:
Years Years.
AI1llers ........... 81 Potters. ............ 80
R0pemakers 81 Hatters. ........... .54
Wheelwrights. 81 Backsmiths. ......... SO
tClothiers. SO Calico printers. so
Pump and block mkrs .56 Wood turner's. so
Tal1ow chambers. .56I
The shortest-lived were the plumbers,
whose average age at death was only
35@ years. The trades in which the
deaths were, on the average, under 40
years were the pail and tub makers,
So; glass blowers and makers and up
holsterers, 50; cooks and trunkmakers,
80. The average age of the laborers
was nearly 4S; of servants, 80; Of steve
dores, SO; and of watchmen, so; while
the workmen in powdermills died, on
the average, at 38.
Next come those employed on the
ocean, of whom there are many among
the living population of Massachusetts,.
Their average at death was about At
years; the fishermen dying at AZ, the
pilots at go, and the seamen at At. Fol
lowing these are the inactive mechanics
in shops, whose average age at death
was a.. They comprised members Of
such trades as those of BARRIERS, book
binders, printers, and tailors. The
longest-lived were the basketmakers, 81
years, and the shortest-lived the carvers,
IS years Printers, BARRIERS, and cigar
makers also died under 40, ON the aver
age; and the sailmakers, and clock and
watch makers, lived to the average age
of SO years and 50 years respectively.
The tobacconists got up to 50years, and
the tailors and harm ssmakers to 4S
years.
The class whose deaths took place at
the lowest age were those set down as
factors laboring abroad, such as baggage
masters, brakemen, butchers, engineers
and fremen, soldiers, and the like.
Their average of life was only 81 years,
and of all the brakemen were cut off
the earliest, at a little past 26. The
longest-ived were the lighthouse keep
ers, who are so often superannuated
men, and who died on the average at
the comparatively ripe years of about
63. Next to them came the weighers
and gaugers, and the sections at SO; the
droyers at 55; the ferrymen, usually
pretty long lived, at So; the wharfngers
at 81, and the butchers at about the
same age. Next to the brakemen, those
who lived the fewest years were the
soldiers, %; the chimney sweepers, 81 !;
the baggage masters, 35, and the
engineers and fremen, SO. The ped
dlers attained, on the average, 46 years,
the expressmen, 42, and the teamsters,
40 rss
Summing up all these statistics, we
find that during the last thirty-four
years the longest-ived men in Massa-
chusetts have been the gentlemen, SO
called, the men of wealth and leisure,
who have lived on the average to the
fine old age of 6S; and the shortest
lived have been the brakemen, pursuing
an exceedingly dangerous occupation,
who have passed away at little over
rs years; if we. except the students,
young men preparing for profession,
who died on the average at about %
years. VI
The death of about 1000 females, en-
ployed as domestics, in shops, in fac
tories, and elsewhere, took place at the
average age of SO years. The longest
lived were the nurses, 81 years, and the
shortest lived the telegraphers, "a
years. The domestics averaged As
years; the dressmakers, 43; the millin-
ers, 80; the operatives, 26; the seam
stresses, As; the tailoresses, 40; the
teachers, 30; and the shoe-binders, Al