Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Death Rate in various Occupations. [ARTICLE]

Death Rate in various Occupations.

Nobody doubts that the occupation of an individual has much to do with his general health, and with his chances of death. Statistics prove that the death rate is lowest among scientists and professional men—not physicians; then follow Protestant clergymen, engineers, farmers and laborers; next carpenters, and workers in iron; then come schoolmasters, tobacconists, Physicians, and finally the clergy of the Roman Catholic church, among whom the mortality is , much greater than among the Protestant eleivy and the other professions named. Next we have druggists and butchers, then miners and glass manufacturers, plumbers and coppersmiths, railway employes and dock laborers, and last of all carmen, cabmen, horaekeepers, and inn-keepers, among whom the mortality is greatest, and much more than double that of the first mentioned, occupation. The deduction which may be drawn from these facts are very instructive and practically useful; they prove that the quiet pursuits of science tend to prolong life as well as outdoor labor, provided it is not on railways or among shipping or horses; that to work in iron u more wholesome than to work in lead or copger, ss might be expected, while the confined labor of a schoolmaster is as injurious as the state of celibacy of the Roman Catholic priest; lastly, the innkeepers, being moet exposed to the temptation of intemperance, have tho least chance for a long life, as well as those with whom they habitually keep company.—Matvufacturer and Builder.