The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-04
DURATION OF LIFE.
STATISTICS SHOW THAT LON
aEv1TY is INCREASING.
Interesting Facts Concerning Births
and Mortality Are Brought
Out by compilers Of
Figures.

Vital statistics show that owing to
modern sanitary reforms and the ad-
vancement of medical science, there
is a prolongation Of human life now
in all civilized parts of the world 1t
has been noticed for a long time that
there has been a marked increase of
longevity in the United States. and
now the latest statistics prove that
in foreign countries similar condi-
ton prevails.
Sweden leads the world in low death
rate. The Swedes have kept vital sta
tistics for more than $50 years. No
other country has such ancient rec
ords. II is said that all countries can
estimate the improvement in the death
rate for 10. Is or 20 years. but in
Sweden the average mortality of chill
dren under 10 years Of age for the 10
years previous to 1860 was 53.5 per
1000. ami this percentage has been
decreased gradually ever since, until
it is now only 1853 per 1000, or the
lowest ia the world.
There has been also a decrease in
the death rate of all ages in Sweden.
The statistics show the rate for per-
Sons between 10 and 20 years OF age
has fallen from 6.4 per 1000 in 1850
70 AZ: for persons between 30 and 40
years of age it has dropped from lis
to IL per 1000. and for persons be-
tween 40 and so years of age from 1876
to 9.5. The death rate as well as the
rate of illiteracy Of the two countries
on the scandinavian peninsula is the
lowest to be found anywhere in the
world.
The actuaries of insurance COM
panies find a decided prolongation of
human life in Holland There the av-
erage life of man has increased from
So to 81 years, and women from 80 to
81 years, while the lowest death rate
among women is from 20 to 35 years
Of age. In Great Britain and Ireland,
says the report, there has been an
Improvement of about 5 per cent,
according to tables kept for 80 years
Notwithstanding the great immigra-
ton from Germany, which disturbs the
calculations of the statisticians, 1t is
found that the average duration Of life
In the empire is considerably greater
than 1t was 80 years ago. In Hungary
municipal statistics for Buda-Pesth
and several other cities show a de.
crease of 20 per cent. in the average
death rate. particularly among chill
dren.
A Washington correspondent Of thu
Chicago Record Herald, who has been
investigating these vital statistics
finds that there is no way Of ascer.
tanning with accuracy the birth rats
among the people Of the United States
although such record is scrupulous-
ly kept In the cities Of Europe. In
most American cities 1t is true that
much attention has not been paid tc
this subject Nevertheless, health au.
thorities are taking hold of 1t at the
request OF statistical associations, and
the defect in regard to birth rates will
probably soon be remedied.
In New York and Washington there
is birth rate given. as in Boston. In
Washington the birth rate per 1000
is 1913, death rate, 1872; in New York
birth rate 2S.9; death rate 22.6: in
Boston, birth rate, 26.5, death rate 1874
The highest birth rate in the world
is at Cairo, Buenos Ayres being sec
o'ld; then come the great manufac-
turing cities of England. The lowest
birth rates are reported from Calcut.
ia, Brussels and Paris.