Author : Edward Jarvis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334572913
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (729 download)
Book Synopsis The Sanitary Condition of the Army of the United States (Classic Reprint) by : Edward Jarvis
Download or read book The Sanitary Condition of the Army of the United States (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Jarvis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sanitary Condition of the Army of the United States According to the calculations and ta bles of Mr. Ansel, in his work on F riend ly Societies, the men of the army-ages, from 20 to 40, in the working-classes, lose, on an average, five days and six-tenths of a day by sickness in each year, which will make one and a half per cent. Of the males of this age and class constantly sick. Mr. Neison's calculations and tables, in his Contributions to Vital Statistics, make this average somewhat over seven days' yearly sickness, and one and ninety-two hundredths of one per cent. Constantly sick. These were the bases of the rates adopted by the health-assurance com panics in New England, and their expe rience shows that the amount of sickness in these Northern States is about the same as, if not somewhat greater than, that in Great Britain, among any definite num ber of men. The rate of mortality is more easily ascertained, and is generally calculated and determined in civilized nations. This rate, among all classes of males, between 20 and 40 years old, in England and Wales, is 92 per cent.: that is, 92 will die out of men of these ages, on an average, in each year; but in the health iest districts the rate is only 77 in The mortality among the males of Massa chusetts, of the same ages, according to Mr. Elliott's calculations, is per cent. Or 111 in This may be safely as sumed as the rate of mortality in all New England. That of the Southern States is somewhat greater. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
