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Show SHIFTING WORLD Nobody Worries About Tissick' Now City dwellers of 300 years ago the Inhabitants of London In the year lfl'8, for instance we.-e only half as likely to be killed In accidents ac-cidents as are the mrtropolltcs of t-day. But they were several times as likely to die from tuberculosis or other diseases with such fearful names as spotted fever, purples, rising of the lights, plague In the guts, tissick, Imposlhume and others, says a study of early and present day mortality by Northwestern North-western National Life Insurance company. The king's horsemen were the fastest traffic to contend with In 1013. The automobile was still 250 fears In the future. |