The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-25

killed by accident within a year. Steam
railroad employees come next. being
/ killed off at a rate of about one in 240
per year. LaDorers come third. miners
fourth. and after these the averages
/ drop almost to inSignificance in COM
parison. OF all employed individuals.
bankers, brokers and officials of COM
! Danies appear to enjoy the greatest i'm
munity from accidental death. being
killed at a rate of only about % per
100000. commercial travellers ranking
next above them, and cabinet makers
next. Other low averages following in
order of least danger are for plumbers,
gas and steam filters. teachers. bakers
and confectioners, cigar makers and
tobacco workers, merchants and deal
ers. accountants and bookkeeeDers,
comDositors. printers. pressmen. clerks
and coDvistS. Considered in classes. the
highest death rate occurs among Ia
borers and servants. and the lowest
among the mercantile class. Among the
employed women. nurses and midwives
have the highest accidental death rate.
servants coming second and teachers
last.
The statistics further show that
newspaper carriers have the slimmest
chances for long life of all occupied in
dividuls. considered in detail. their
death rate being over three times the
average clOCh anu WdlcHuldkeIS, Jew
elers and opticians, soldiers, sailors
and marines of the United States. sail
ors outside of the navy, laborers, hat
and cap makers, boatmen and canal
men, actors, cigarmakers and tobacco
workers ranking next in order. all high
above the average.
Others above the average, If order,
are artificial flower and paper box
makers, gunsmiths, locksmiths and bell
1o n larr, or
wants. plasterers. whitewasherS. laun-
derers. bakers and confectioners, apoth-
ecaries. pharmacists. drug and chemical
dealers, butchers, journalists, BARRIERS
and hairdressers and Others
CLAY WORKING HEALTHFUL.
The most healthful occupation seems
to be that of brick and tile makers or
terra Gotta workers. and following this
class. bankers, brokers and officials of
companies. Farmers, planters, over
seers and farm laborers are third from
bottom as to death rate between the
ages specified, quarrymen fourth, fish
ermen fifth and paper mill operatives
sixth.
1t is an interesting fact that the
highest death rate among those con-
sidered in detail in the professional
class occurred among physicians and
~
than city doctors. Professional men are
carried off by diseases of the respdra-
tory system in greater numbers than |
by any other cause. In the order OF
their number of victims among pro-
fessional men, diseases of the nervous
system rank second, consumption third, |
and heart disease fourth. The death |
rate from nervous diseases is much |
higher than the average for all classes, |
which fact seems to corroboraGe
theorists who believe that nervousness
is a usual accompaniment of intellec- |
tuality. The death rate from consump- |
ton is lower than the average among
professional men. Clergymen die mostly
from diseases of the respiratory or |
breathing organs, lawyers and doctors
from nervous diseases and teachers
from consumption.
The clerical and official class die
from consumption, but bankers,
brokers and officials of companies are
most frequently carried off by raspira-
tory diseases, such as pneumonia, Tor
instance. The death rate from cropsy
and diabetes is above the average pr
this class. Respiratory diseases are
the most frequent causes of death also
among the mercantile and trading
classes, farmers, miners, policemen,
flour and gristmill operatives.
GOOD CHANCES
OF all occupations pursued by women
that of stenographer and typewriter
appears from the figures TO offer the
best chances for long life OCCUPIED vo-
men as a class die most frequently
from consumption, which dread disease
reaps a greater harvest among vo-
men employed in the cities than among
those employed in the rural districts
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