The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-28
The Jewish EHace.-EIs RsemarISa-
bile Longevity.
From the London Jewish Chronicle.I

: From the London Jewish Chroniclel
The marked and unvarying peculiarly
, of the Jewish race is larger proportion
Of boys among the births than among
Christians in the same places. This may
} be in some degree influenced by The age
of parents at the time Of marriage as
Jews marry younger than Christians.
What is most remarkable in reference to
the proportion of the sex is the fact Of a
fact), as stated by Levy Of their being Il
smaller proportion of males OF all ages
among the Jews than among the general
population, the former having uniformly
such large excess Of male births.
amounting to nearly Is per cent, while
the general population have only 81 per
cent Yet, notwithstanding this, if all
ages be taken in the same proportion,
Jews have 3.25 per cent. fewer males,
while the general population have only
| s per cent. fewer males than females.
| This difference is certainly greater than
could be accounted for by a difference Of
emigrants in favor of males, and is prob
ably due either to proportionate mortal
ity among Jewish male infants, or
greater longevity of their females prob
ably the latter. Prof. Waltz gives 100
females to 203 male births among the
Jews in Berlin; 100 to 100 in Livorno
100 to Ill in the Prussian dominions
generally.
"Immunity from disease is one of the
most characteristic and valuable proper
ties of this pure and favored race. Not
long ago a paragraph appeared in the
Times stating that the Jews of Roumania
Il L
other immigrants were attacked, and at
tributed this freedom, like DR.. Hough
and DIR. Mapother, to their peculiar
habits, emitting to take into considera-
ton what, in our opinion, is most i'm
portant element-and in this We are
supported by the foregoing authorities
namely, the well-preserved qualities of
an unmixed race.
''Dr. Mapother, of Dublin, in his lee
lures on public health, says: The strik-
ing immunities of the Whitechapel Jews
in the last as well as all former epidemics /
(cholera) was due to their timely distrI-
button of animal food, and to their excel
lent hygienic observances, which have
made the longevity Of this race one-third
greater than that of most European peo-
pies Dr. Hough says, They have had
in recent times so very marked an immu-
nifty from plague that it was the motive
of odious prosecutions Tschudi, in
speaking of the plague OF 1916, says that
this malady did not affect the Jews of
any country. Frascati mentions the fact
that the Jews escaped completely the ep-
idemic oftyphus in 1905. Rau mentions
the same immunity from typhus observed
at Langeons in 1924 Ramazzi insisted
upon the immunity of the Jews from the
fevers observed at Rome in
1891 Degner says the Jews escaped
in 1876 the epidemic of dysentery in
Nimeguen. Michael Levy remarked
that the immunity was common to the
French and the Israelite. NJ. Fisenmann
insists on the extreme rarity of Group in
Jewish children. DIR. Chatter, in his
paper on The influence of the race on the
duration Of life, gives the following table
showing the relative frequency Of disease
among different races in the same local
ty: