Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-01
.PHTHISIS LABOR'S FOE
Causes Large Percentage of
Deaths Among Male Workers.
Uncle Sans Statistics Show Most Fa-
taIities Among Women Due to
Organic Diseases of Heart.

Based upon 94,269 deaths of male
and 1O2, ACT deaths Of female Industrial
policyholders, fifteen years of age ana
over, as recorded in 1911, 1912 and 1913
by one life insurance company, tuber-
culosis caused the death Of 2O.5 per
cent of the former and 14.4 per cent
of the latter, while organic diseases or
the heart were responsible for II per
cent of the deaths of males and 14.S
per cent of the deaths of females. Inc
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, 81 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 ut childbirth. By occupation, the
lowest average age at death was 36.5
wears among bOokkeepers and office as
sistants and the highest average age
was SIS years among farmers ana
farm laborerS.
These facts are brought out in a
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, 81
per cent; compositors and printers
S4.1 per cent; gas filters and steam mt
tiers, BIG per cent; longshoremen ano
stevedores, 29.2 per cent; transfers
drivers and chauffeurs, 2S.2 per cent
saloonkeepers and bartenders, 70 per
cent: machinists, % per cent; cigar
makers and tobacco workers, I'll pei
cent: textile mill workers, % per cent
iron holders, 21.9 per cent; painters
paperhangers and varnishers, 21.9 pei
cent, masons and bricklayers. 10 pei
cent: bakers, 1873 per cent; laborers
1874 per cent; blacksmiths, IA per cent
Accidental violence was responsible fol
the largest number of deaths among
| railway enginemen and trainmen, Az
per cent; railway track and yard work
ers. 2O.S per cent; and coal miners
2O.4 per cent; while the largest mum
her of farmers and farm laborers, 49,
per cent died from organic diseases O
the heart, due to the facts that tn
prevalence of these diseases Increases
with age and that the average age
death of those in this group Is hlghe
than any other group.
Similarly, among women the larges
number of housewives and housekeep
ers. 15.2 per cent, died from Organi
diseases of the heart for the same rea
son stated above, while tuberculosis
took the largest proportion of clerks
bookkeepers and Office assistants, IL.
per cent; clerks and saleswomen, IS.
per cent; textile mill workers, 300 pc
cent: dressmakers and garment work
ers 27.S per cent; and domestic ser'
ants. 15.9 per cent. The average age a
death was 26.1 years among clerks
bookkeepers and Office assistants, an
$50 years among housewives an
housekeepers.
The statistics indicate that respira
tory diseases are prominent where IN
industrial worker is exposed to colds
drafts and dampness, as, among mason
and bricklayers, or to violent change
of temperature, as among teamster'
drivers and chauffeurs. Organic dl'
eases of the heart have a high propol
tional frequency in cases where tn
work is heavy and the cardiac power
are overtaxed as among iron molder
Suicide is frequent where depressin
influences are present as among baker
and cigar makers. Typhoid fever
high where questionable water SUI
. niles are used, as among engineme
, and trainmen, farmers, iron moidei
and laborers.