Longevity Of Millers

During the thirty-four years and eight months from May lst, 1848, to December 31st. 1877, there died in the State of Massachusetts 101,801 men over 20 years of age, whose occupations were specified in the registry of their decease. The average at which they died was about 51 years. The number is so great, and the period covered is so long that by the study of the classitíeation of the employment of those dead we may get a very good idea of the comparative ages at which men in different occupations and in an ordinarily healthy community are swept awny bydeath. The deaths in only six different occupations were at an age, on an average, above 60. They were- lst, the gentlemen, 08; 2nd, the farmers, 66; 3d, the judges, 64; 4th, the light-house keepers, nearly 63 ; 5th, little over 50 years, professors over 67 TST'"' .1"w'pvs bout 56 years, and pnysieuuis ahnut B5 years. The active mechanics died on an average at the following ages: Millers, rope-makers. wheel-wrights, 57 years; clothiers. pump and block makers, and tallow ehandlers, 56 years ; potters, 55 years ; hatters 54 years ; blacksmiths, 53 years ; calicó printers and wood turners, 52 All other occupations feil below the above enumerated classes, brakemen dying earliest of all, at 26 years of age. It will thus be seen that millers are among the longest lived men of thi community, following closely after i professional men and gentlemen ol leisure, who are the longest lived men in every country. The rnillers lived six years longer than the class inated as factors laboring abroad gage masters, brakemen, engineeiv i tiremen, soldiers, etc.) who died at au ] average age of 37 years. -Amtrimn i Mttler. t