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Show Death bate of enginemen rich ! Testimony on 8ubject Given by Statistician Sta-tistician at Wage Arbitration Hearing Chicago,-ch. lS.'-Denth, In fig-urcs,Jwas fig-urcs,Jwas paraded today before members mem-bers of the arbitration "board which Is hearing testimony bearing on tho do minds of Western loqomdtiv6 engineers engi-neers nnd firemen for higher wages. Testimony bore almost, exclusively on tho death rate o( tbo, englnemen ns compared with other. workers. Tho principal witness wus Dr. Henry J . Harris, a statistician; ofWho library of Congress at Washington, nnd introduced intro-duced by Warren S. Stono 'of the engineers en-gineers as one of the World's leading authorities on the subject. Dr. Harris presented a long table compiled on data supplied by tho ro cords of tho Medico-Actuarial Investigation, Inves-tigation, in commenting on which he said: "According to tlio table, the occupations occu-pations conspicuous for their hlgb. death rates, are, first, tho miners and workers in stono nnJT'.qlny; second, the locomotlvo flremehii third, struc tural Iron workers and fourth, the locomotlvo engineers." Where tho normal oxpectancy of death Is 100, the actual deaths among firemen is 190, tho witness said, and among engineers 1C0. Among olllcers ot tho navy, excluding chaplains, pay masters and physicians, the rata Is 152, while' the. hazard In tho life of policomen, constables and sheriffs Is 134. |