Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-13

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thorities having been consulted in their
preparation.
LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE.
The average length of lie is ..........2S years.
One-fourth die before the age of .........7
0ne-half before the age of..-...........H
The rich live an average of....-...-.....42
The poor ...-..........30
One Of LOCO persons reach .
One of 500 " ...-....-.--..S0 a
Six of loo f" ..............65
The average duration of life is greater
now than ever before According to
Dupin the average length of life in
France from l776 to l843 increased SO
days per annum. Macauley states that
in 1856 the deaths in ENGLAND were as
l to 20; in 1850, l to 40. The rate of
mortality in 1871 was l to %; in 1868,
l to 40.
POPULATION.
An able professor of the University
of Berlin has lately made the following
estimate of the population of the globe:
Europe -. .27s, 100000
Asia 100 100000
Africa o9,O00,000
America North and South. 200 100000
Australia -......-...........-.. 100000
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. j, 2S3, 100000
DEATHS.
The number of deaths per annum, as
founded by statistics for 1870 is. .S2, $4,000
The No. deaths per day is. 10000
=" hour Is. 1850
minute Averages. 81 l-2
BIRTHS:
The average No. berths per day los 900
hour Is......... 1900
minute is ....-.. 10
MARRIED AND SINGLE.
The married live longer than the sin
gle. The mortality among bachelors
between the ages of 80 and As is 81 per
cent; among married men between the
same ages, Is per cent. Seventy eight
married men reach 40, while only fl
bachelors arrive at the same age At
the age of 60 the advantage in favor of
married life has increased 20 per cent.
Or 1dE
There are more males than females
born by 4 per cent. At the age of 20
there are more females than males. At
the age of 40 the preponderence is again
on the other side, and there are more
males than females. At 20 the sexes
are again even. Between 70 and 100
years there are $500 more women than
men, or an excess of five per cent The
mortality of women is greatest between
the ages of 20 and 40 After 40 years
of age the probabilities of longlevity, as
shown, are far greater for females than
for males.
OF SUICIDES
Three. fonrtbs 20 all suicides are
males TIo greatest number are caused
by divorces. The least number are
among the married. next the unmarried,
next the widowed. One-third of the
cases are due to mental diseases one
ninth to physical suffering; one-tenth
to fear of punishment or shame; one
ninth to family quarrels; one-ninth to
drunkenness, gambling, etc.; one-twen-
tieth to disappointed love. Of boys
under Is years of age sc per cent hang
themselves of girls of the same age II
per cent. drown themselves. Young
men most commonly use the pistol-old
men the razor; young women drown
themselves-old women use the rope
only one female in 200 uses firearms.
The ratio of suicides, as given by NJ.
Decaisne before the French Academy OF
Sciences, is as follows London, one in
It's deaths New York, one in 172
Vienna, one in 100; while in Paris il
has reached the shocking number of one
in ~.
OF WEIGHT.
The average weight at birth is Is
pounds-the weight of males little ex.
ceeds that of females the extremes Of
weight at birth are 2 and II pounds
At II years of age the sexes are Of
nearly equal weight, after which limit
the males are heavier than females. Al
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