TOLL OF THE WAR.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17109, 2 April 1921, Page 2

TOLL OF THE WAR.

A. study of the different statistics of ! the actual and potential loss .of life due ! to the recent war reveals the fact that about 43,000,000' lives have been'lost' to the world .either directly, from the wan or from causes induced by it, says Dr. Richard'P. Strong, writing in-the '"North American Review." These losses are made ivp/ of, first, approximately, 13,000.000 deaths.which occurred in the, military' services; secondly, a surplus mortality above that whioh occurred in normal times in the civilian populations, amounting to approximately '10,000,000; due to epidemic and .other diseases, privation, .; hardship,, physical exhaustion, and similar causes 5 and, thirdly, a.-poteritialloss'of;2o,ooo,-000 lives "due; f to' the; 'decreased 'birth ■ frequency 'below, that, which-occufrod iii ; normal conditions before'the war. The adult male population.inmany European countries has been, reduced by from 14 to #0 per cent. There are between 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 people in Europe who hare lost their pre-war occupations owing to the fact that the markets for their products no longer exist, having-been changed* or taken away from them by other countries. Many of these people have or soon will become refugees in Europe, among which class of people-not 6nly\poverty and hardship, but disease always reigns, resulting -in a high; increase in death rate and decrease in birth rate.