92 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES. 



That occupation has a pronounced influ- 

 OccuPATioN. ence upon longevity is well illustrated by 



the comparative mortality table appended. 

 Comparative mortality of men twenty-five to sixty- 

 five years of age, in different occupations, 1881 to 1883 

 (Ogle): 



Comparative 

 Occupation. Mortality. 



Clergymen, priests and ministers 100 



Lawyers 152 



Medical men 202 



Gardeners 108 



Farmers 114 



Commercial clerks 179 



Innkeepers^ liquor dealers 274 



Inn^ hotel service 396 



Brewers 245 



Butchers 211 



Bakers 172 



Tailors 189 



Book-binders 210 



Builders, masons, brick-layers , 174 



Carpenters 147 



Plumbers, painters, glaziers 216 



Blacksmiths 175 



Cotton manufacture 196 



Cutler, scissor maker 229 



File makers 300 



Glass workers 214 



Earthen-ware workers 314 



Coal miners 160 



Stone, slate quarries 202 



Street hawkers 338 



