Excerpt from American Life-Waste: Where and How It Is Increasing Herein The fallibility of our most reliable vital statistics is fully appreciated. Mathematical exactness in such statistics is, of course, impossible; but, allowing for all possible inac curacies in the registration area reports, there is no denying the general trend of mortality from the various diseases as shown by them. Vital statistics collected by states, and by very widely separated cities, and even by ordinary census enumerators, all give the same testimony corroborating the upward or downward trend of the death rate from the diseases discussed herein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.