New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
Federal Bulletin Shows Tu-
berculosis Kills 35 Per
Cent Of Clerks
Homework Is Healthy
Woman at Home Outlasts
Wage-Earning Sister by
Quarter Of a Century

Based upon 1920 deaths Of male
and lO2, 40 deaths OF female industrial
policyholders fifteen years Of age
and more. AS recorded in 1911
1912 and 1918 by the Mctropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company, tu-
bcrculosis caused the death Of 200
per cent Of the men and ia per cent
Of the women, while organic diseases
Of the heart were responsible for l.
per cent Of the deaths of males and
14.S per cent of the deaths of females.
The average age Of men dying from
tuberculosis was 81 years and OF
women Gi1 years. OF males the low
est average age at death, 81 years,
was among those who died from
typhoid fever. and of females the low
est average age AZ death, twen,y-nine
years. was among those who died IN
childbirth. BY occupation the lowest
average age at death was 300 years
among bookkcepcrs and office assist
ants and the highest average age was
So years, among farmers and farm
laborcrs.
These facts are brought out IN tabu-
lar form i'm Bulletin 207, entitled
Causes of DEATH, by Occupation
study made by Louis /. Dublin and re-
Gently issued by the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics of the United STATES Depart
ment of Labor
tuberculosis was responsible for the
largest number of deaths among clerks,
bookkeepers and Office assistants 80
per cent?: compositors and printers
(34.1 per cent?; gashtters and steam
filters (31.6 per cent?; longshoremen
and stevedores t29.2 per cent?; team
sters, drivers and chauffeurs (2s.2 per
cent?; saloonkeepers and bartenders
(26 per cent?; machinists 20 per
cent?; cigarmakers and tobacco work
ers. cal per cent?; textile mill work
crs (22 per cent?; iron moulders tZly
per cent?; painters, paperhangers ana
varnisherS t2l.9 per cent?; maSons AMI
bricklayers 10 per cent; bakers 'lo.o
per cent?; laborers Cl61 per cent?;
blacksmiths IA per cent?.
Accidental violence was responsible
for the largest number Of deaths among
railway enginemen and trainmen 10
per cent?; railway track and yard
workers POS per cent?. ana Goa!
miners 20l per cent, while the larg-
est number Of farmers and farm labor
els 1874 per cent? died from organic
diseases of the heart. due 10 the facts
that the prevalence OF these diseases
increases with age. and that the aver
age age at death Of those IN this group
is higher than in any other group.
number of housewives and hOusekeep-
ers 15.2 per cent died from organic
diseases of the heart for the same rea-
sons stated above. while tuberculosis
took the largest proportion Of clerks.
bookkeepers and office assistants, 42.4
per cent: clerks and saleswomen. 3S.l
per cent: textile mill workers, 35.5 per
cent: dres smakers and garment work
crs. 27.S per cent. and domestic ser
wants. 1919 per cent. The average age
at death was 2G.1 years among clerks.
bookkeepers and Office assistants and
1913 among housewives and hOusekeep-
ers.
The statistics given in the bulletin
indicate that respiratory diseases are
prominent where the industrial worker
is exposed to colds. drafts and damp
ness as among masons and brlcklay-
ersD or to violent changes Of temper
aturc las among teamsters, drivers and
chaufeurs).
Organic diseases Of the heart have
a high proportional frequency in cases
where the work is heavy and the car
diac powers are overtaXed te. &, among
IRON mouldersl. Suicide is frequent
where depressing influences are pres
ent as among bakers and cigar max
ers). Typhoid fever is high where
questionable water supplies are used
as among enginemen and trainmen,
farmers. iron moulders and laborers) q.