Show slums slum at sea many will be surprised to read of 0 slums at sea and yet as the london times says the statistics of mortality in the british mercantile marine give a very clear indication of the unsanitary conditions prevailing 1 lu many slums at sea the death rate per 1000 from disease during the last 20 years has been consistently higher than that in the navy and army and among the mile male civil population between the ages of 0 twenty three and forty five years even during the south african war with the exception of one year from july 1 1899 to june 30 1900 the death rate in the mercantile marine exceeded that in the army the most significant figures are those which show that during the last ten years the death rate in the mercantile marine per 1000 has been considerably higher than that from all causes in the navy and very much the same as that from all causes in the army |