The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27


grow dumb through a peculiar complaint
induced by handling the glass, and which
attacks the jaws and ends in PARALYSIS.
In mirror factories, in addition TO the
danger already mentioned there is that
OF mercurial poisoning. This deadens the
sight, crumbles away the jaws, and ulti-
mately kills long before death is due;
The average mortality among these who
have worked in glass for more than,
twenty years is, accoHaingSSstes ,gecent
actuarial tables, more than go pees cent.
Glass workers, in addition to5the dangers.
of their work proper, care apt 10 Aesaleds
into alcoholic troubles and nervous dis
eases. They suffer from these sawic ice as
much as do persons following "a oEsdIparS
occupations. ssfss ~ g5'f@
The occupation, of4thes NIGER lsSdap gen.S
Gus, both from its liability to accident
and from his inepitables ssfsee ptfblli tssato,
certain dread diseases. No other class of
mer suffers so heavily from consulhption;
and the life underground is apt]fo pro-
duce blindness and ague. Paralysis fol-
lows if the work is persisted in after
these ailments first manifest a themselves.
Sometimes the loss of reason is the next,
step. In lead. copper and quicksilver
mines the results are even more disas-
trous Mineral poison becomes injected
into the system, and besides Originating
blindness and paralysis, causes sthe teeth
to fall out, while. copper canker' as
it is called, eats illton the efesh7ins pre-
cisely the same way as does leprosy,
Coal miners are the healthiest of all
miners. They are unusuallyqcff ee-s from.
phthisis,- and they suffer inappreciably
from alcoholism In recent years, too,
the liability among coal miners to acct
dent has decreased very considerably.
The actuary said that one of the most
curious problems life insurance compa-
MES had been called upon to consider in
recent years was the matter of sinsuring
the lives of divers. Divers do not live
long, and those who dive to great depths
are of extremely short lives The diver
generally dies from accident The first
warning the deep-sea diver has of the
effect that the high pressure he. has I'M
dergone is about to end his life is copious
bleeding of the nose, accompanied by4oc-
casional fits of giddiness. From this. in
case he escapes alive. Two results may
accrue; either total collapse of the nerv->
Gus. system or a disease known as divers
palsy, Both of these result IN theevyic3inl
becoming a permanSnt inXafid. * azt-fs 81
The man who works on high places
seems to suffer from troubles ery,ssimi-
lar to those of the diver The man who
works in cellars and Easements, on the
other hand, is liable at any time. to be
struck down by a malignant fever. If he
RECEIVERS from this.=he is left weak and
decrepit for the remainder of his life
The mortality among ordinary laborers
exceeds that among the average of men
by about 25 per cent rs.,s
The layman might suppose that sailors
living as they do in air where there lis
always so much ozone, would be of an
an unusually healthy class AS r45af
ter of fact, however, sailors are subject
to scurvy, q most malignant disease.
Which either brings its victims to an
early grave or leaves them weak and
helpless during the rest of their lives.
Moreover, the lack of shade during the
not weather at sea and the brilliance
of the sun upon the water impair the
eyesight, and in later years the sailor
may, without the slightest warning, go
suddenly blind .,ss1e -st.as s.sssz E
Chemists and druggists seem to, be pc
culiarly addicted to suicide. From rheu-
matism these, engaged in these occuna-
tons die twice as fast as the average
While they are four and one-half times
as susceptible to govt. Among tobacco.
dealers the mortality from diabetes is
double as high as is the case among the
average man. Dairymen are peculiarly
subject to govt, While a large number of
them commit suicide. Among grocers
and keepers of fruit stands, diabetes
seems to be very prevalent cause of
death. Diapers die faster than the aY-
erage from phthisis, Influenza and rfleti-
matte fever. The sjeweler is liable to suf-
fer from the most violent OF all solid
polsons, diamonds dust. Gatarac 9sand
loss of sight are common ailments among
those who set Jewels
The worker in match factories suffers
from peculiar complaint known as
PEossy jaw" This was al one time the
1eost deadly of all trade maladies but
matchmakers studied the problem and
they now use newly. invented kind of
phosphorus which reduces the number of
fatal cases to a minimum Nevertheless
large number of workers in these fac
tories succumb to this trouble every year.
ana insurance companies are extremely
loath to insure the life of any man in a
match factory. The symptoms of ..phossy
Jaw are crumbling away of the law
bone, this ending ultimately in total
paralysis and DEATH =,
Dyers, bleachers, and al who labor in
factories where chemicals are largely
used seldom reach their fortfeth.Syear,
Inc chlorine, used so extensively bysdy-
erS and chemists in general attacks the
lungs and burns them away gradually
but surely. Those occupied IN ma king
chlorine gas are well aware that if they
continue IN that employment they cannot
expect TO i've more thant ten years. fiat
high mortality from phtfis;s.. = g- - r.
PHYSICIANS die just a little faster than
ther patients, upon an average Only
lhree causes of death in this occupation
SNOW lower proportion than is the case
Ill the average occupation; phthisis dis
eases OF the respiratory system and acct
dent On the other hand mortality from
diseases of the liver, of the circulatory
ana urinary systems, as well as from
suicide appear to be greatly in excess.
from govt and diabetes physicians s1lg.
Ter ABOUT three times as heaVily As do
the average men of occupations Among
DOCTORS and members of the legal and
clerical professions diseases of the hea If
DEATH 7+so -
LAWYERS are most generally subject to
HlnuehZa, cancer, nervous diseases dis
eases OF the liver, Brightis disease. and
diapetes. Diabetes is the principal disease
IN IN. TINS occupation. The profession suffers
n ,GeS severely than the average of occr-
lung dlsease, and their mortality from ac-
cloent is much below the average
among commercial travelsr the mortal
| ity is very high. This is due to the na-
! ture OF their employment and the LARGO
proportion of time they must spend IN
| the open air in all kinds of weather NOT
| 50 iuany OF them die from accident as
might be supposed. Diseases of the liver
aicoho1sm, diabetes, cancer and Brightis
| oIsease are particularly prevalent as the
causes OF death in this occupation, which,
Sf0i' suffers ICES imam the aVera ga
male population from phthisis and f3iso
eases ease Of the respiratory organs. The raj
idly as might be supposed. his moTtaf HRv
r neilng below that of the sailor and the
The profession in which there is the
loWest mortality is the clergy Insurance.
men say that many people consider thai FL af
/ 1nere Is a Providential provision in this
me me mortality in this class from phthisis
9 a respiratory diseases is represented by
figures which are, respectively, oniv ss