Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-02-23
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come Into the world !. only about h
year. very few live Ia b. over -, and not
more than one out II :. 90 sees hls hund.
r-,iih birthday. isthls due Ia the original
difference. In th. babies Themselves, or
In the way they are brough, up, In the
places which they live, In the air they
breathe, and In their mode ~ lie after
they become full grown' 10 answer
these question. one of the first thing.
We want Ia know !. whether people die
equally q. fast everywhere, aud " not,
where I. IL that they die soonest or live
longest. III. answer Ia this IL that
people die much mere rapidly In some
countrie. than In others. for Instance,
they die twice H fast In Hungary q.
they do In Sweden. In III. year issD
out ~ every 1000 person. living Ia the
following nsm.,l-countries, ther. dlci In
England, II; la Norway, L. IN Sweden,
10 ; Ia Au.tris, u; In Hungary, -; In
Germany, -; In France, ~ and In Italy,
-. How many died In the United state.
We do not know, because no account of
them "a. kept la IN. greater part 81 the
country, but Il VA. probable that IL or
Il out 81 each 100. We do know. how
ever, that they died faster In some citle.
than In Others. For .xampl. out 81
each |, ODo persons there died during the
year ending May ~, isa-D, In New York
city. II In brooklyn, - Ia Boston, ~ ;
In l'hlisdelphia -, In Chicago, ~ Ia
Detroit, ~; In ~. Loui., 10; aud In MIN
ncapolls, IL, while In the country dis.
tricts the lo.. VAS only II or ~ out 81
each Ion. !Also, We know that they
died faster In some parts of IN. same
cltv than they did In others.
What are the causes ~ the great DIFF
ferrnce.r In the fr.t place they depend
upon the number of little children pres
ent In these difervnt places. The baby's
grasp 81 existence !. at flr.t feeble, the
little hsme 10 life Ia II flcksrs and tremb-
le. and Il does not require much To put
Il out altogether. The heavy death
rate. occur among the children. Thus,
In IN. fourth ward In Philadelphia, cat
% each loo white children under h,e
wears old. rs died: while In Oh. thirty
third ~ari only - di~i, which accounts
for the large part of Oh. difference In the
death rate. IL the two wards, aud at the
same tune shows that there must be
some great difference between them Ia
their influence on child life. II I. not
quite correct 10 .ay that In those pl,c-.
" her. the fewcst numbers per thousand
die the people live the Longest, bat II u.
true la most cases, aud We may, there
fore, say that the people live longer Ia
small town. than In large cities, and In
IN. country than they do la towns. This
{. true not only In the United states,
bat over all the world.
let "a. now see where the greatest
number of old persons, In proportion Ia
the total population, are Ia be found
living In the United states. An exaInl-
nation of the record % the tenth census
show. that In iss0 this was In New
England. Of each lOD, 90 white persons
there we're then llvlng-and over 10
year. oid-in Connecticut, o95 In Maine
LIZ; Ia Massachusetts,, 500; In New
Hampshire. l,i,i; In Rhode Island, 80,
aud IN Vermont, l,?s2. These are higher
figures than are shown for any other
state.
From q study % these figure. II il
very plain that the fact that there are
more old people In one state than In an-
other depends very much on how long
the state has been settled. In the move
ment from the Eastern States Ia take
possession of the broad praries, the fer
Tile valleys, aud the golden threaded
mountains of the great West, those Who
vent were the young. the energetic, and
the .tron.g leaving behind them the faith
or. and the grandfathers In the old New
England homes. And that movement
has been 90 recent, II has been 80 com
psratiyely short time In the history Of
the nation since the states west Of the
Mississippi have been filed up aud pierre
Ell with the railroads now necessary to
supply large groups Of people, that
there has not been time for any large
number Of grandfathers and grand.
mother. "a grow up and get their hair
properly whitened and their backs bent
of the curve which belongs TO ~ years
Of sgc. when another 100 years have
gone We may he sure that there elll not
be nearly so great q difference In the
number Of old persons In the different
states, but We may also be quite sure
that then, ~ now, persons Will live
longest who live among the Wind swept
hills Of the Northern and Middle States
Of this country.
One Of the best means OF measuring
the relative length of life In the differ.
ent states Il that afforded BY the expe-
Renee Of the thlrtyprinclpsI life insur-
snce companies OF this country pre-
yIous To 1874, including the record OF
over q million Of lives, Insured for
over twenty-six hundred millions OF
dollars. From thcse records we learn
that the states where the lose was
greatest and the length Of life least
were: Louisiana, l76; Texas, 175; Ar.
kansas, Ia; Florida, iG7: MIs.lssippl,
iGl; Tennessee, 163, Alabama, 13t; and
Maryland, 10. The corresponding DC
ures for some Of the other states are
Callfornis, %; Connecticut, %; Georgia,
%; Kentucky, l05; Minnesota, 100
Missouria, III; New York, os; Ohio, %
Peunsyivania, %; South Carolina, rs
Virginia, l0i. These figures alien sho~
that iIfe Il shorter In the South than Ia
tqe North, and In tbs dat, low groandl
than among hills and mountains.-Nsw
YORK Sun.