Lanterna Rally

Author: Queensland. Office

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230030777

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...a manner as to come under one or the other of the three classes previously referred to. Of these, 29,111 were employed in commerce in all its branches, 42,015 followed industrial pursuits, and 61,233 were engaged in agriculture or other primary production. In 1895 there were 1,721 deaths recorded of males engaged in occupations included in one or the other of the three groups under consideration--viz., 352 commercial, 54Z_industrial, and 822 primary producers, so that calculations based on the figures above stated give the following results: ---Centesimnl Proportion of Males Centeslmal Proportion of Male Centesimal Ratio of foregoing in each Class to total Males Deaths in each Class to total Death Percentage, 1895, to in all three Classes in Census Male Deaths in all three foregoing Population perPopulstlon of 1891. Classes, 1895. eentage, 1891. Commercial 2200 20'45 92'99 Industrial...... 31'74 31'79 ' 100'l2 Primary Producers 46'26 4776 I 10324 100'00 10000 From these figures it would appear that those occupied in the commercial class are the most healthy; probably this may arise from the fact that those employed in such pursuits, no doubt, consist of those whose mean age is less than those included in the other classes. The industrial class comes next, and, as was the case in previous years, primary producers contributed the largest relative proportion to the mortality rate in 1895. With respect to females, the information, as furnished on the death certificates, is evidently so unreliable that little is to be derived from an investigation of the figures. For instance, itis absurd to suppose that out of all those ordinarily engaged in commercial pursuits only 2 died during 1895; still such is the case, if dependence is to be...