MORTALITY IN WAR.
Basing his estimate on the death rates of the Union army in the American Civil War, the German army in the Franco-Frussian War, the British army in the Anglo* Boer War, and the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War, the editor of the American Underwriter says that the loss by death in the present war will be 540,000, if the average number of men engaged during the year amounts
to 6,000,000, wLlch is something more than the total annual death
rate for the entire adult male population of the United States. But this does not prove that the life of a soldier is much more uncertain than that ot a civilian under certain conditions. Thus the American Experience table ot Mortality shows that a soldier’s chances of living through a year of the war are greater than those of a civilian for living from the age of 25 to the age of 36, from 30 to 41, trom 35 to 45, from 40 to 49, from 45 to 52, from 50 to 56, from 55 to 60, or from 60 to 63 years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1390, 24 April 1915, Page 2
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186MORTALITY IN WAR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1390, 24 April 1915, Page 2
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