Note 13 — Chapter III · ToC
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The death rate in 1900 among occupied males in the professions was 15.3 per 1000; in clerical and official classes 13.5; mercantile, 12.1; laboring and servant classes 20.2 per 1000 (12th Census U.S.) Dr. Emmett Holt, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, points out the marked contrast between the death rate of the children of the poor and the children of the rich. See Appendix, p. 421.