. Town and city. ^ ^ 400 soo 200 100 100 200 Under 5 0- y 10. 14 15 19 20 24 25 34 35 44 45 54 S5 04 05 and over 600 Mortality of Consumption in New York City in igoo The black bars show the number of deaths for each 100,000 living citizens of the same age the sheets and clothing; and there, as anywhere else, itdries, flakes off, flies about, and carries danger. Strange to say, in cities the greatest danger is for people between fifteen and forty-five years of age. The : two diagrams show the case for New York. In one of these notice the black bars that grow longer for certain years, and then
. Town and city. ^ ^ 400 soo 200 100 100 200 Under 5 0- y 10. 14 15 19 20 24 25 34 35 44 45 54 S5 04 05 and over 600 Mortality of Consumption in New York City in igoo The black bars show the number of deaths for each 100,000 living citizens of the same age the sheets and clothing; and there, as anywhere else, itdries, flakes off, flies about, and carries danger. Strange to say, in cities the greatest danger is for people between fifteen and forty-five years of age. The : two diagrams show the case for New York. In one of these notice the black bars that grow longer for certain years, and then shorter again as^theage increases; in THE ENEMY OF THE CITY, —TUBERCULOSIS 201 the other notice the circles which show the number ofdeaths of men and women between the ages of twentyand forty-four ; also the great dark section which showsthe proportion that died from tuberculosis. If consumption, a preventable disease, had been pre-vented in New York City in 1900, that whole dark 20 — 29 years 30 — 44 years.
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