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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 27,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>RAILROADING HEALTHY</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Government Compilations Show Relative Liability of
Various Workers To Disease</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Compilations have been made, from government
reports, showing the relative liability to disease of the employes in various
trades. According to the returns so far tabulated by the census bureau,
the occupation of the steam railroad employe is the healthiest of all. In
a long list of maladies, the only one to which the railroad employe is more
liable than the workers in manufacturing or agricultural trades is typhoid
fever, and to this he is far less liable than are the workers classed as
"laborers." The figures show that the railroad man is far less liable to
consumption [<EM>tuberculosis</EM>] than the workers in the manufacturing and
mechanical industries. Heart disease and pneumonia are rarer among
railroad employes than any other working men.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>