Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
n Do Not Live Five Times the
Period 1t Takes Them to Become
Full-Grown, as Animals Do.
.E AVERAGE AGE is So YEARS.
Hungary the Death Rate Is Almost
Twice as Great as It Is in the
United States.
7URES FOR STATES AND CITIES.
nsylyania Does Not Rank Very High as Compared
With Her Sisters
rwErrrES FOR THE prspArcH.1

Among the many differences between not
ing and living things is the fact that
lnges in those which are alive occur in
tain definite times; and the amount of
Ie allowed for these changes depends
-ely on the properties of the living mat
itself The time required to hatch. an
depends upon what sort of an egg 1t is;
the same in the chicken-hatching oven
it is under the setting hen. Growth, de-
and death have each their allotted times
! seasons - the little mass of living
tier which produces hair can form just
much length of hair and no more, and
en- it has done its work it shrivels and
s; when another little mass of cells takes
place and begins to push out q new
y The life Of single hair in 8 grown
n is from two to six years Every day
loses from so to so dead hairs and begins
produce nearly as many new ones.
20, also, each animal has q certain time
ich /: can live; it is like q machine con-
acted to run so long and no longer. For
st animals this time is about five times
II required for the animal to obtain its
growth and development, which in man
.urs when he is from 20 to % years old,
that be ought to live from 100 to ITO
lrz
,hs Average life Is Thirty-Eisht Years
as matter of fact, the average life of
the babies that come into the world is
ly about So years; very few live to be
er so, and not more than one out of 1000
IS his hundredth birthday. Is this due
original differences in the babies them
YES or in the way they are brought up, in
= places in which they live, in the air
ey breathe and in their mode of life
er they become fuil-grown? To answer
ese questions one OF the first things we
mt TO know is whether people die
ually fast everywhere, and, if not, where
1t hat they die soonest or live longest.
The answer to this is that people die
Ich more rapidly in come countries than
others; Tor instance, they die twice as fast
Hungary as thev do in Sweden. In the
~ 1889 out of every 1000 persons living
the following countries there died, in
lCland, IS; in Norway, Il; in Sweden, 16;
Austria, p; in Hungary, 50; in Germany,
, in France, p, and in Italy, 25 How
any died in the United States we DO not
ow: because no account of them was kept
the greater part of the country; but it
S probably Il or Is out of each ], 900 liv-
:. We do know, however, that thev died
ter in some cities than in others. For ex-
lple, out Of each !. 600 people living there
q during the year ending May 81, 1890,
New York City, %; in Brooklyn, 25; in
'ston, "A; in Philadelphia, %; in Chicago,
II Detroit, 20; in ST. Louis, 10, and in
tnneapoEs, Is, while in the country dis
CTS the loss was only IL or II out of each
&C.
Different Parts OF the Same City.
Also. we know that they died faster in
me parts of the same city than they did
others; thus, the death rate per thousand
Boston in the Eighth Ward was 80, while
tire Twenty-fOurth Ward it was 1S In
-ooklyn. in the Fifth Ward, it was 33, and
Twentv-fourth Ward IS; and in Philadel-
ia il was "a in Ward Four and IA in Ward
i;rt--three. What are the causes of these
sat differences? In the first place they
pend upon the number of little children
esent in these different places. The |
by'g grasp of existence is at first feeble; |
c li-tie fame of life in it fickers and |
smblss, and it does not require much to
10 il oui altogether. The heavy death rates |
cur among the children. Thus, in the |
5ur-h Ward in Philadelphia out of each |
ousand white children under years old, |
8 died; "hile in the Thirty-third Ward |
lv 53 died, which accounts for large part |
the ference in the death rate of the |
wards, and al the same time shows that |
re must be some great difference between |
r-l in their influence on child life.
Is not quite correct to saw that in those |
nn- % barr hor nd
The people live the longest, but it is |
re in most cases. and we may therefore |
y that people live longer in small towns |
"a in large cities, and in the country |
DG they Go in towns. This is true not |
y in the United States, but all over the |
5rlG
Cc:o=eaariens in the Tenth Census
Let Us now see where the greatest num- |
r Of old people, in proportion to the total |
ipu-at!on, are to be found living in the |
nitcd States. An examination of the |
cords OF the tenth census shows that in |
80 his was in New England OF each |
600 white persons there were then |
7iE--and over so years old-in Con-
c;icUt, g96; in Maine, l,147; in Massa- |
.useJ's, 500: in New Hampshire, 1,47S; |
Rhode Island, S27, and in Vermont,
122. These are higher figures than are |
own fer any other State. In New York the |
rresPondlng proportion was 563; in Penn
lyania, AL; in Maryland, 347, and in (
slaware, 4O9. In Ohio it was 412; in In
ana, 26f; in Illinois, 215; in Iowa, 21S; in |
ichigan, 3l9; in Minnesota, 139; in Ken
ckv, 32S; in Tennessee, 347; in Virginia,
/; in North Carolina, 5o7; in South Caro-
"a, Al; in Florida, 2O4; in Georgia, 401;
Alabama, 34l; in Mississippi, 245; in
0uisiana, i61; and in Texas, III. In Mon
IA il was onlv q; in Neva7a, Sc; in Wy
ling, 80; IN Idaho, 40; in Dakota, 81; in
rizons, So, and in Colorado, 81
From study Of these figures il is very
ain that the fact that there are more old |
,ople in one State than in another depends !
~ much on how long the State has been
tiled.
In the movement from the Eastern States
take possession of the broad prairies the
rtile valleys and the gold and silver
rsaded mountains of the great West,
ose who went were the Young. the ener.
tic and the strong, leaving behind them
fathers snd the graEdfathers in the old
ew England homes
The Old Folks Of the West,
And this movement has been so recent IL
IS been so comparatively short a time in
c history of the nation since the States
.s. Of the Mississippi have been flled mn
d pierced with the railroads now neces,
~ to supply large groups of people, that
ere has not been time for any large num-
= Of grand athers and grandnothers to
ow up and get their hairs properly whit
ed and their backs bent to the curve
aich belongs to so years If age.
When another hundred years have gone
, may be sure that there will not be nearly
great s difference in the number of old
ople in the different States, but we NAV
50 be quite sure that then, as now, those
ople will live longest who live among the
nd swept hills of the Northern and Mid