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Show Printers Lead Tuberculosis List. A mortality report issued by the governmeni shows that over half the deaths of printern, lithographers and pressmen are due to tuberculosis of the lungs. The percentage of deaths due to the white plague in the age period from twenty-five twenty-five to thirty-four j'enrs, in various pursuits, follows: Printers, etc., 51.5 per cent; agriculturists, 3G.2per cent; servants, 32.3; transportation employes, 31.9; manufacturing and mechanical employes, 30.8; plumbers, 43.2; clergymen, 41; barbers, 40.6; tailors, 37.7; bartenders, 37; shoemakers, 35.5; salesmen, 32.5; laborers, 30.8: and blacksmiths, 29. 6 |