250 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



population in 1891 of 165,000. Here, though the intensity of 

 the shock was slightly greater than at Messina, only 190 persons 

 lost their lives instead of about 75,000 at the latter city. Thus, 

 taking the difference of population into account, the number of 

 persons killed in Messina was about 430 times as great as in 

 Nagoya ; or as Prof. Omori forcibly remarks, about 998 out 

 of every thousand persons killed in Messina fell victims to the 

 faulty construction of their houses. 



