The chance is reducible to cold, pitiless figures, and a few of these figures will not be out of place.
Sir A.Forwood calculates that-- 1 of every 1400 workmen is killed annually.
1 of every 2500 workmen is totally disabled.
1 of every 300 workmen is permanently partially disabled.
1 of every 8 workmen is temporarily disabled 3 or 4 weeks.
But these are only the accidents of industry.

The high mortality of the people who live in the Ghetto plays a terrible part.

The average age at death among the people of the West End is fifty-five years; the average age at death among the people of the East End is thirty years.

That is to say, the person in the West End has twice the chance for life that the person has in the East End.

Talk of war! The mortality in South Africa and the Philippines fades away to insignificance.