Facts and Figures

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 36.

Facts and Figures

The state university at Berkeley, California, has nearly fifteen per cent more students this year than last. It is now expected that the registration for the year will be approximately 7,200.

According to Prof. Irving Fisher, head of the political science department of Yale University, fully 630,000 persons die annually of diseases that might be prevented by the application of methods that are now well known.

The United States navy used 15,000,000 gallons of fuel oil in 1911, and it is estimated that it will use 21,000,000 the present year. Many of the vessels now in commission use oil as an auxiliary to coal, and some that are now in building are being fitted to use oil exclusively.

Thirty million dollars worth of American automobiles were shipped out of the country during the last fiscal year. The growth of the automobile business is shown by the fact that the value of the machines manufactured in this country in 1899 was $4,748,000, while the last census shows that the value of those manufactured in 1910 was $249,202,000.

Professor Davenport says that about one per cent of the whole population of the United States are mentally defective, insane, feeble-minded, or epileptic. That means that about 1,000,000 of our population are mentally out of tune. That is quite an army. The same authority says that if the present increase of insanity is kept up, it would not take over three centuries to have the whole race insane.