Anti Drink : Drink-Dealer's Death Rate

Abstract

DRINK DEALERS' DEATH- RATE.
England & Wales.

Comparative Mortality of Occupied Males aged 25-65 years in the principal trades and occupations, from all causes, 1900-1-2. The figures are based upon a mean mortality of 1000 for All Men.
1. Clergymen, &c... 515
2. Gardeners, &c...527
3. Farm Labourers &c...572
4. Railway Engine Drivers, &c... 582
5. Schoolmasters, &c... 599
6. Platelayers and Railway Labourers... 707
7. barristers and Solicitors... 739
8. Artists, engravers, &c... 760
9. Shipbuilding... 765
10. Carpenters... 769
11. Railway Guards, Porters, Pointsmen... 773
12. Shopkeepers (various)... 811
13. Commercial Clerks... 837
14. Gas Workers... 838
15. Millers... 842
16. Bakers and Confectioners... 852
17. Hosiery Manufacture... 853
18. Miners... 859
19. Bricklayers, Masons, Builders... 862
20. Engineering... 866
21. Blacksmiths... 884
22. Fishermen... 892
23. Shoemakers... 901
24. Commercial Travellers... 907
25. Wool and Worsted Manufacture... 927
26. Chemists and Druggists... 934
27. Printers... 935
28. *Medical Profession...952
29. Tailors, &c... 953
30. Metal Workers... 973
31. Textile Workers... 984
32.Chemical Manufacture... 1031
33. Cotton Manufacture... 1037
34. Plumbers, Painters, & Glaziers... 1041
35. Hatters... 1046
36.Butchers... 1062
37. Coach, Cab, Omnibus Service... 1062
38. Textile Dyers, Bleachers, &c... 1066
39. Musicians, &c... 1140
40. Glass Manufacture... 1202
41. Brewers and employ'es... 1324
42. Innkeepers and Publicans... 1669
43. Inn and Hotel Servants.. 1767

Compiled from the Supplement (part II) to the Sixty-fifth Annual Report of the Registrar- General of Births, Deaths and marriages in england and Wales, issued 1908.

* For the Medical Profession the figures are for "Occupied and Retired." The Retired Physicians and Surgeons were not seperately abstracted in the Census.