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Show Value of the Hariris and Fingers Provided for by European Insurance Scale . In many cases surgeons have to estimate the chances of saving injured in-jured hands niul the comparative value j f hands ami finders. According to a scale c.f value furnished by the Miners' Union and Miners' Accident Insurance In-surance companies of a European country, the loss of both hands is valued val-ued at 100 per cent in the ability to earn a living. Losing the right hand depreciates the value of an individual as a worker 70 or SO per cent, while the loss of the left hand represents from 00 to 70 per cent of the earnings of both hands. The thumb is reckoned to be worth from 20 to 30 per cent of the earnings. The first finger of the right hand is valued at from 14 to IS per cent, that of the left hand at from 8 to 1314 per cent. The middle finger Is worth from 10 to 16 per cent. The third finger stands least of all in value although, like other useless members of the community, It Is surrounded by riches, its value being only from 7 to 9 per cent. The little finger Is worth from 9 to 12 per cent. The difference in the percentage is occasioned by the difference in the trade; the first finger being, for instance, more valuable to a writer than to a digger. |