The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
QUICKLY THE DOCTORS DIE.
Faster Than Lawyers-No Account
of Actors. Authors and Journalists.

of Actors. Authors and Journalists.
II you would enjoy long life you
| should become a minister (of any
religious denomination), or failing
that gardener, gamekeeper, a
farmer or railway engine driver.
These, according to DR.. John Tat
hams report to the Register-General
on the mortality in certain occupa-
tiops during the three years from
1900, which was issued last night,
are the callings which offer the best
prospect of longevity. At the other
end of the scale come the general
laborer, the tin miner, the hawker
and the hotel servant, and about
midway are the physician, the UNDER
taker and the tobacconist.
AS compared with lawyers DR.. Tat
ham records, medical men die more
rapidly at every stage of life, while
as compared with the clergy their
mortality is enormously in excess.
tuberculosis, phthisis and diseases
of the respiratory organs are the
only causes of death that are SUBJ
stantially less fatal to medical men
than to males in the aggregate. Dis
eases of the nervous and ci-culatory
systems contribute the largest share
to the mortality of medical men, due,
no doubt, to their anxious and ardu-
Gus occupation.
A sign of the times Is given in the
particulars relating to commercial
travellers. They fall victims to alco-
holism in greater proportion than do
all occupied and retired males by
thirty-eight per cent, while their
mortality from liver disease is more
than double that standard. But the
mortality from alcoholism, gout, liv-
er disease, accident and suicide was
considerably less in the last period
than in 1SS0-S2.
In the previous supplement it was
remarked that there was no other
occupation in which the ravages of
cancer approached that among Chin
ney sweeps. 1t is still noteworthy
that although the mortality from
that disease has fallen by nearly one
fourth part, chimney sweeps are still
subject to the highest fatality from
this disease, although among several
other occupations, such as servants
in London, brewers, furriers, general
laborers and seamen, the mortality
does not fall far short of that of CHM
ney sweeps. 1t is a subject which,
as DR.. latham points out, deserves
further attention.
For the first time in these returns
the question of the mortality among
women workers is dealt with exhaus-
lively, though it is a matter full of
difficulty. For instance, the case of
domestic servant, the daughter of
brlcklayer who has returned home
permanently invaiided, is given. She
is thenceforward regarded as unoc-
cupied, and in the event of death will
be registered as bricklayer's daugh-
ter, no mention being made of her
previous occupation.
In the case of married woman
this cause would appear to operate
even more strongly, the deceased
woman being described simply as a
wife or widow, with mention of her
husbands occupation but without
mention of her own.
1t is rather curious that actors,
authors and journalists have no
place in these tables, even in the in
| dex. Even numerically they must be
almost as important as, say, coster-
mongers, wigmakers and chimney
sweeps, who are all included.-Lon-
don Daily Chronicle.