The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-04-12
THE MARRYING AGE.
EFFECT OF MARRIAGE ON THE DEATH
RATE OF INFANCY.

Both tho Bride and Bridegroom May he
Over Thirty and Under Fifty with Ad-
vantage Herr Korosi Has Deduced
Some Interesting Figures.
The mortality of young children is yearly
decreasing. The decrease is ascribed to
various causes Some say that it Is due to
progressive improvement in the human
race. Others attribute it to an increase of
proper precaution in the care Of the young.
Still others contend that the cause of fewer
deaths among children is to be found in no
longer permitting them to eat unsuitable
food and to wear unsuitable clothing.
Few infer from the present rate of NOR
tality that the marriages of parents have
been made at more proper ages. Yet in
vestigation by scientific men has proved
that II hereditary diseases be excepted
there is nothing so dangerous to the life Of
a child as the marriage of its father and
mother at certain nges.
It is only recently that any inquiry into
this subject has been undertaken. But the
results which have thus far been obtained
are such rs to show that men and women
must marry at particular stages of their
lives IL their offspring is to be mentally
and physically sound.
It Is to Herr Korosi, the head Of the sta
tistical department ut Buda-Pesth and al
ready we'll known for the Importance and
accuracy of the conclusions he has arrived
at from statistical inquiries in other fields,
that we are indebted for the discovery of
this new factor in determining the welfare
of the human race The results which he OBJ
| tanned from u casual examination some IL
| years ago OF the relations existing between
1 the mortality of children and the various
ages Mt which their parents were married
were so striking that they induced him to
make more exhaustive investigation.
For the past 10 years, therefore, DIR. korosi
| has been careful to ascertain, whenever the
death of "a child was registered, the ages Of
| its father and mother, as well as that of the
| child and the cause of its death. He has
noted in all 29,sl3 separate cases, which, in
making his deductions, he divides into two
| distinct classes, the deaths caused by heredi
| tary diseases and the deaths caused by dis
eases which were contracted after birth
The former class is manifestly of the great
est importance for his purpose.
As the condition of the mother is evident
| ly more instrumental than that of the ia
Their in its effect upon the child Herr koros
has complied his first table on the results
gained from observations of the mother:
age merely
The statistics in this instance are:
Age of Mothers. Percentage of Deaths
Under ~ years. ..,b
70 to 1D years. I4i
~ to 10 years IE.o
Over 10 years. lJs,
Deaths resulting from tuberculosis were
| eliminated from these calculations.
From this table it is evident that thu
most desirable age, as far as the health o
her children is concerned, for u woman tt
marry is between the ages of 80 and 80, thu
mortality of children resulting from mar
riages ut that age being but H. per cent
1t also appears that woman should MARI,
when she is more than 35 years old rnthe
than when she is between 90 and 80 years o
age.
Mothers under 90 years Of age are, accord
ing to statistics. more liable to bear sckl,
children than at any subsequent period il
their life.
i The mortality of children by women il
their teens is nearly double that Of thos
whose mothers were married between s.
and 80 years.
Concerning deaths due to tuberculosi
and atrophy, the statistician finds tina
twice as many deaths result from consump
ton and three times rs many deaths from
atrophy when the mothers are under 20 a
when they are over the age of 20.
Herr Korosi also recognizes that tn
physical and mental condition of a fathe
leaves, to the same extent, ita impress OF
his children. He has accordingly prepared
table of greater length showing the result
OF tho "age combination" of both parents
Men arc slower in developing than women
hence the relative difference between thei
: ages in the table;