Show SHIFTING WORLD worries about bissick sick now city dwellers ot of years ago the inhabitants ot of london in the year 1648 for instance were only half ball as likely to be killed in accidents as are the metro of today but they were several times as likely to die from tuberculosis or other diseases with such fearful earful names as spotted fever ever purples rising of the lights plague in the guts bissick sick impost hume a nd n d others says a study of early and present day mortality by northwestern national lite life insurance company the kings horsemen were the f fastest traffic to contend with in 1648 the automobile was still years in the future deaths from accidents were only about 36 per year per in 1648 compared to 71 today accidents then produced 1 per cent ol of total mortality against 7 per cent today total annual death rate however in century england was 35 to 40 per 1000 of population against only 10 per 1000 of population in present day united states infant mortality from disease was appalling although it then was on the way down from the dark medieval years the way out added to the list of the worlds numberless martyrs for liberty was the name of jan blasa masaryk ryk foreign minister of czechoslovakia son of thomas masaryk who was the first president and liberator of the country |