How to avoid dying before the time / by Alfred Schofield.

Alfred Taylor Schofield

Date:: [1890?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to avoid dying before the time / by Alfred Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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mental over-exertion. They are not confined, however, to those who are obliged to work in order to obtain a living, but are found also among the much smaller class who voluntarily devote themselves to the service of their sovereign and country in work that taxes to the utmost the energies of the strongest. For personal ambition and a sense of duty lead many whose means and position raise them far above any material necessity to spend themselves and to be spent in public life. These, however, have nobler objects in view than even the preservation of their own health. They act with their eyes open, and they do not lose their reward. Many occupations are necessarily specially fraught with disease and death. As long as we require bright cutlery, dangerous chemicals, phosphorus matches, and other unhealthy productions, so long some people must suffer in providing them; but none need enter these trades against their will. Those who do should be careful to use the apparatus provided in many work¬ shops for safeguarding the health of the workmen. ’ The influence of occupation on health is well shown in this table. Taking the general mortality of men in the United Kingdom as 18 per 1000 per annum, we find the following rates of death comparatively in the different callings: — Ministers of religion. . 9 to 10 per 1000 Farmers . . . 12 5> Shoemakers . 15 >> Grocers . . 16 Carpenters . 17 Miners . . 20 Bakers . . 21 Butchers. . 23 Brewers . . 24 Cabmen . . 28 Public-house servants . 32 General mortality . 18 »»

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