The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-08
.PHTHISIS LABOR'S FOE
Causes Large Percentage OF
Deaths Among Male Workers.
Uncle Sans Statistics Show Most Fa-
talities Among Women Due to
Organic Diseases of Heart.

Based upon 94,269 deaths of male
and 1O2, ,467 deaths of female industrial
policyholders, fifteen years Of age and
over, as recorded in 1911, 1912 and 1913
by one life insurance company, tuber-
culosis caused the death of 700 per
cent of the former and IA per cent
of the latter, while organic diseases or
the heart were responsible for II per
cent of the deaths of males and 14S
per cent of the deaths Of females. Tie
average age of men dying from tuber-
culosis was 81 years and of women
34.1 years. OF males the lowest aver
age age at death, 31.1 years, was among
those who died from typhoid fever, ana
of females the lowest average age at
death, 20 years, was among those VINO
died at childbirth. BY occupation, the
lowest average age at death was 365
years among bookkeepers and office as
sistants and the highest average age
was 5S.5 years among farmers and
farm labOrers.
These facts are brought out in
bulletin entitled "Cause of Death, by
Occupation" a study made by Louis
|. Dublin, and recently issued by Uncle
Sans bureau of labor statistics.
tuberculosis was responsible for the
largest number of deaths among clerks,
bookkeepers and office assistants, 30
per cent; cOmpositors and printers
BAL Der cent; gas filters and steam lit
tiers, 31.6 per cent; longshoremen ana
stevedores, 292 per cent; teamsters,
drivers and chauffeurs, 2S.2 per cent;
saloonkeepers and bartenders, 26 per
cent; machinists, % per cent; cigar
makers and tobacco workers, PAL per
cent; textile mill workers, % per cent I;
iron molders, 219 per cent; painters,
paperhangers and varnishers, 2l.9 per
cent; masons and bricklayers, 19 per
cent; bakers, 1873 per cent; laborers,
1874 per cent; blacksmiths, IA per cent.
Accidental violence was responsible Tor
the largest number Of deaths among
railway enginemen and trainmen, 42.3
per cent; railway track and yard work
ers, 20.S per cent; and coal miners,
2O4 per cent; while the largest num-
ber Of farmers and farm laborers, 1874
per cent died from organic diseases OF
the heart, due to the facts that the
prevalence of these diseases increases
with age and that the average age at
death of those in this group is higher
than any other group.
Similarly, among women the largest
number of housewives and hOusekeep-
ers, 1872 per cent, died from organic
diseases of the heart for the same rea-
son stated above, while tuberculosis
took the largest proportion of clerks,
bookkeepers and Office assistants, 42.4
per cent; clerks and saleswomen, 3S.7
Der cent: textile mill workers, 35.5 per
cent: dressmakers and garment work
ers, 27.8 per cent; and domestic serv-
ants, 159 per cent. The average age at
death was 26.1 yGCrs among clerks,
bookkeepers and office assistants, and
53.3 years among housewives and
housekeepers.
Inc SIdulSllCS luuiCal0 lll"I iS"Iit"
tory diseases are prominent where the
Industrial worker is exposed to colds,
drafts and dampness, as among masons
and bricklayers, or to violent changes
Of temperature, as among teamsters,
drivers and chauffeurs. Organic dis
eases of the heart have high proper
tional frequency in cases where the
work is heavy and the cardiac powers
are overtaxed as among iron molders.
Suicide is frequent where depressing
influences are present as among bakers
and cigar makers. Typhoid fever is
high where questionable water sup
plies are ed, as among enginemen
and trainmen, farmers, iron molders
and laborers.