Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-10-25
THE MARRYING AGE,
EFFECT OF MARRIAGE ON THE DEATH
RATE OF INFANCY.

Do'h the Bride and Bridegroom May Be
over Thirty and Under Fifty With Ad-
vantage Herr Korosi Has pednced
Some Interesting Figures.
Inc mortality of young children is YEARLY
decreasing. The decrease is ascribad 70
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 younp.
gun Others contend that the cause of fewer
Ieaths among children is to be found in no
longer permitting them to eat unsuitable
lood and to wear unsuitable clothing.
Few infer from the present rate of NOR
LaIIy that the marriages of parents have
oeen made at more proper ages. Yet in
Nestlgatlon by scientific men has proved
that II hereditary diseases be excepted
there is nothing so dangerous to the life of
child as the marriage of its father and
mother at certain ages.
1t is only recently that any inquiry into
this subject has been undertaken. But the
results which have thus far been obtained
are such as to show that men and women
must marry at particular stages of their
lives if their offspring is to be mentally
and physically sound.
1t is'to Herr Korosi, the head of the sta
tlstical department at Buda-Pesth and al
ready well 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
tained from a casual examination some 10
years ago of the relations existing between
the mortality of children and the various
ages at which their parents were married
were so striking that they induced him to
make a more exhaustive investigation.
Forthe past 10 years, therefore, DR.. Korosi
has been careful to ascertain, whenever the
death of 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 We're 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 fa-
ther in its effect upon the child Herr Korosi
has compiled his first table on the results
gained from observations of the mothers
age merely.
The statistics in this instance are:
Age of Mothers. Percentage of Deaths.
Ohuer ~ yeaIS.. 22.3l
~ 10 0O years.. .....................H H.4l
oNer % 5eurs'' lid
Deaths resulting from tuberculosis were
eliminated from these calculations.
From this table it is evident that the
most desirable age, as far as the health Of
her children is concerned, for q woman to
marry is between the ages of so and 35, the
mortality of children resulting from mar
riages at that age being but 1895 per cent
1t also appears that woman should marry
when she is more than 35 years old rather
than when she is between 90 and 30 years of
age.
Mothers under 20 years CT age are, accord
ing to statistics. more liable to bear siclSly
children than at any subsequent period in
their life.
The mortality of children by women in
their teens is nearly double that of those
whose mothers were married between 80
and 35 years.
Concerning deaths due to tuberculosis
and atrophy, the statistician finds that
twice as many deaths result from consump-
tion and three times as many deaths from
atrophy when the mothers are under 20 as
when they are over the age of 90.
Herr Korosi also recognizes that the
physical and mental condition of father
leaves, to the same extent, its impress on
his children. Hehas accordingly prepared a
table of greater length showing the results
of the "age combination" of both parents.
Men are slower in developing than women;
hence the relative difference between their
ages in the table: