The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-31

and In Baden, 1.94 and 26S. In Austria. from
1851 to $50, the Jewish mortality was as 2. IA
compared with 500 among the christian
population; in Russia % and 3.6 despite the
crushing poverty and the unsanitary con-
ditions IN which the great mass of Hebrew
inhabitants exist; in Tuscany 9 81 aud 2. 10
In Saxony, Of the jews l succumbs in 81:
OF christians, 1 in SO. In Prussia the latest
statistics show that the mean duration of
jewish life averages five years more than
that Oh the general population; and official
returns from Algeria give ! Jewish death
In sue as compared with l in 81 among
Others. DR.. Mayer states that in Frank
fort d per cent. Of the Jews attain their
10Th year, and 50 per cent. of christians;
and the 10th year of life is reached by 81
per cent. OF the former, and by but ID
per cent of the latter. Half of
the Jewish population there attain their
5Oth year, half the christians die by their
0oth; one-fourth Of the Hebrew inhabitants
OF the city pass their list year, while barely
one-fourth among the christians reach their
9th. DR.. Neufville. also writing of Frank
fort, shows that, assuming 100 individuals
10 De porn on the same day, one-fourth
would die before their 9TH year of
christians, and not till their 2Sth year of
Jews; half the former at 36Jk wears of age.
OF the latter at So; and three-fourths under
61 and II years respectively. And Dr.
Mayer adduces statistics of the mortality in
turth, giving the average duration of life
there OF christians as 20, and of Jews as 81
years.
AT the meetings of the Statistical Society
OF Paris in July and August, 1865, NJ
Legoyt read papers on "Ihe Vitality of the
Jewish race in Europe" in which he quoted
an exhaustive study Of the subject by DR..
Glatter, the government medical officer in
Wleselburg, In which, after a minute COM
parlson OF the respective mortality at all
ages-the conclusions were so favorable to
the vitality of the Hebrews that NJ. Isegoyt
said:
THE facts on which these observations
are based present phenomena SO char
acterlstlc and SO uniform through
a long series of years that it
Is dlfflcult not to recognize In them these
privileges and this immunity of the Jewish
element. The advantages attributed to it
by DIR. Chatter are the more remarkable
because the lsraelites in that locality belong
to The most modest social condition: they
are petty retail traders, living from hand
TO mouth, and consequently placed in I'M
favorable hygienic conditions; vet, com
pairing the respective races, we find the
mean chance of life of Croats to be 20.2, of
Germans 267, of Jews 465, and our sur
prise is excited at the considerable number
OA VIM az. I'LL oAITeLue Olu age
And the Revue Scientifque summarizes
the physiological immunitles of Jews as
showing that everywhere stillborn children
are rarer among them, a greater proportion
OF their children survive, their general
mortality is lighter, their mean duration of
life is longer, and they are comparatively
exempt from tuberculous maladies: and it
ascribes these biological privileges. in a
great degree, to the faithful observance of
the hygienic rules prescribed by their
religious observances.