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Show Health of Drinker and Abstainer. The Registrar-General of Great Britain Brit-ain lg authority for the statement that the highest rate of mortality among any class of men engaged In any regular regu-lar branch of Industry is founj among persons engaged In the liquor trade. A table containing the comparatlv death rateg of males engaged in one hundred occupations In England and Wales gives very convincing arguments. Men engaged as inn or hotel servants have the highest rate of mortality; clergymen, clergy-men, ministers and priests the lowest. Of persons engaged in the retail liquor li-quor trade the death rate Is four times that of the clergy between the ages of 25 and 40. |