Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — Slums at Sea. [ARTICLE]

Slums at Sea.

Many will be surprised to read of slums at sea, and yet, as the London Times says, the statistics of mortality 0 in •the British mercantile marine give a very clear indication of tfie unsanitary conditions prevailing in many slums at sea. . The death rate'jier 1,000 from disease during the last 20 years has been consistently higher than that in the navy and army, and among the male population between the ages of twenty-three and forty-five years. Even during the South African war, with the exception of one year from July 1, 1899, to June 30, 1900, the death rate in the mercantile marine exceeded that in the army. The most significant figures are those which show that during the last ten yearsthe death rate in the mercantile marine per 1,000 has been considerably higher than that from all causes in the navy, and very much the same as that from all causes in the army.