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carpenters (205.67), iron and steel workers ( 188.47), leather curriers, tanners, etc. (185.04), machinists (225.50), and among all of those in the class engaged in agriculture, transportation, and other outdoor pursuits except sailors and watermen, and livery-stable keepers, etc.

The average death rate from diseases of the nervous system was 132.72 per 100,000. It was above the average in the pro- fessional class, in which it was highest (202.64), the laboring and servant class (155.43), the mercantile and trading class (145. 76), and the class engaged in agriculture, transportation, and other outdoor pursuits (142.94), and was below the average * in all other classes, being lowest in the clerical and official class (82.86).

Of the individual occupations the death rate from these dis- eases was highest among physicians (328.18), clergymen (293.74), soldiers, sailors, and marines, United States service (260.83), lawyers (255.32), and sailors, fishermen, and pilots (253.01). It was lowest among messengers and newsboys (20.46), launderers (26.51), stenographers and typewriters (35.80), and steam-railroad employes (48.48).

In the principal occupations the death rate from diseases of the nervous system was highest among brick and stone masons (239.98), tailors (229.29), boot and shoe makers (195.22), merchants (194.87), farmers and farm laborers (182.05), butchers (173.76), painters, glaziers, and varnishers (167.20), iron and steel workers (157.49), blacksmiths ( 1 55.79),. carpenters (155.23), and machinists (150.08), and was lowest among bankers, brokers, and officials of companies (50.53), servants (70.41), draymen, hackmen, teamsters, etc. (78.32), account- ants, bookkeepers, clerks, and copyists (83.94), cigar makers and tobacco workers (100.36), cabinetmakers and upholsterers (110.90), and mill and factory operatives (114.47).

The average death rate from diseases of the respiratory sys- tem was 203.09 per 100,000. It was above the average in the laboring and servant class (332.20), in which it was highest, the entertainment class (261. 54), the personal-service, police,