The healthiest occupation ono can adopt, according to a list made by the United. SUites Department of Labour after investigating causes of death in nearly 200.090 cases in twenty different occupations, is that of tho farmer or farm labourer. Tho average age at time of death among farmers is given as 58.5 years. The most hazardous occupation is that of bookkeeper or office assistant—average ago of death only 3C.5 years; railway engine men and train men live only 37.4 years; plumbers’ and gasfitters, 39.8 years; compositors and printers, 40.2 years. Accident makes the life of the railwayman short, while tho greatest enemy of tho bookkeeper, plumber, am} printer is tuberculosis. Ail
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 9
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111Untitled Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 9
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