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glaziers, and varnishers (22.10), butchers (20.60), boot and shoe makers (19.14), laborers (19.04), accountants, bookkeepers, clerks and copyists (18.84), and merchants (17.97), and was lowest among marble and stone cutters (7.77), steam-railroad employes (9.42), iron and steel workers (11.62), compositors, printers, and pressmen (12.03), carpenters (12.52), farmers and farm laborers (12.80), physicians (14.40), and machinists

(14.62).

The average death rate from accidents and injuries, exclud- ing suicide, was 97.54 per 100,000, and was above this average only in the laboring and servant class (181.93), and the class engaged in agriculture, transportation, and other outdoor pur- suits (135.95).

In the individual occupations the highest death rates from accidents and injuries occurred among boatmen and canal men (418.57), steam-railroad employes (375.69), sailors, fishermen, and pilots (294.61), miners and quarrymen (277.92) laborers (210.62), engineers and firemen, not locomotive (187.57), lum- bermen and raftsmen (160.6 1), telegraph and telephone operators etc. (137.66), brick and stone masons (125.87), policemen, watchmen, etc. (124.04), soldiers, sailors, and marines, United States service (121.10), and draymen, hackmen, teamsters, etc. (117.01).

The preceding table gives only a few of the principal causes of death for which the death rates in relation to occupation are presented in the report.

The analysis of the occupation data covers 134 pages, ami gives, for each occupation, the number and proportion of the population engaged, the death and death 'rates by age periods, in the various areas, also the death rates and proportion of deaths due to different causes. The general tables of death in relation to occupation cover 337 pages.

There is no corresponding data for any previous census, and this work was designed to supply as complete a basis as the data would permit for future comparison

It is greatly to be regretted that there is such a wide diver-