Annual report . ACCIDENTAL DEATHS Macnines, speed, and skyscrapers symbolize a civilization inNorth America unsurpassed for the production of mortality from United States has more fatal accidents for the size of its populationthan any other country in the world and Canada is a close second. Of the students examined in the Class of 1939 at fji average ageof nineteen, per cent or Per 1,000 had suffered one or ^norepainful accidents before matriculation. In the Chart on Injuries Per1,000 Students Exanined is given the rate by classes for the freshmenat the time of entran
Annual report . ACCIDENTAL DEATHS Macnines, speed, and skyscrapers symbolize a civilization inNorth America unsurpassed for the production of mortality from United States has more fatal accidents for the size of its populationthan any other country in the world and Canada is a close second. Of the students examined in the Class of 1939 at fji average ageof nineteen, per cent or Per 1,000 had suffered one or ^norepainful accidents before matriculation. In the Chart on Injuries Per1,000 Students Exanined is given the rate by classes for the freshmenat the time of entrance for the last fifteen years. This shows that atleast one out of every four students, and sometimes as high as one outof every three students, has suffered some severe injury or accident beforematriculation. When such a large proportion of a group is subject to in-jury, a high mortality rate for accidents is inevitable. INJURIES PER 1,000 STUDEFTS EXAMINED 360—360 3U0- 320- ooo 1 300— 280— 260— 2U0 —. —360 —3^0 -320 —300 -2S0 260 —2U0 IT\ r— CO m O iH CM f^ ,=f in V-D fc- 60 as CM t\J r^i p> co I^v K> r t*\ CP, T, m CTi CTi <T\ CT. cr» CTN en cp o^ Class Chart No* 10 - 3* - Accidents caused 182 of the 8Ul deaths of former students whohave been registered in the University sinco 1918. This closely ap-proximates the total of 186 known Illini dead of the World War and is arate of per 100,000. With the average expectancy of life being 60years for men and 62 years for women, society lost 6,353 years of its potentially most capable and promising members. I. Autonobile Accidents To exchange deaths from typhoid fever annually for36,000 deatiis from automobile accidents each year — to trade half a mil-lion patients with the disease annually for one million injured by motorcars every twelve months — all in 30 years, is a change from death byinfection to death from trauma, but it is not
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