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Show CAUSE MANY DEATH3. DLaasra Thai Ar. stoat fr.,aleot U TllM. 1J. A leading Ufa Insurance company has recently published It monthly records, covering a period of fifty years. Notwithstanding tho utmost caro li observed In securing only good risks, free from organlo diseases, the causo of denth In the Insured and un-Insured. un-Insured. la,probabIy much alike. Ouv of 4i.0SJ '"deaths a trifle over one-eighth one-eighth (B.C83) wcro from tuberculosis. Almost the sama rumber (5.BI2) camo from apoplexy, softening of the brain nnd paralysis, which aro kindred maladies, If not practically Identical. To disorder of the heart aro credited 4,833 deaths (one-ninth); to tho dlges-tlvo dlges-tlvo npparalus, 4.C81 (one-tenth); pneumonia, 4.0C2 (one-eleventh); violent vio-lent causes, 3,337; might's dlitsaae, 2.907; typhoid fever, 1.712; nervous diseases, not specified, 2.30G; Ill-dsflneJ nnd obscuro casca, 1.7C9, and olhcr recognized rec-ognized maladies, S.ilO. When deaths from the causes Just enumerated aio divided Into the three periods, tho agi of 43 nnd under, from 45 to CO nnd above CO, some striking fact aro brought out. Among tho Insured CO per cent of the deaths from violence (accidental or Intentional assault), 60 per cent of those from tuberculosis nnd CS por cent of tho total typhoid cases, occur In the first period. On tho other hnnd. 47 per cent of tho mortality from Ilrtght's disease CG per cent from apoplexy apo-plexy and paralysis and CO por cent from heart disease occur after tho ngo of CO. Mischief from tho dlgestlvo ap-paratu". ap-paratu". Is fairly well distributed, 30 per cent of the deaths occurring In the first period, 38 per cent In tho second and 81 per cent In tho third. Modlcal Times. . |