Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-05-11
DURATION OF LIFE.
STATISTICS SHOW THAT LON
aEvITY rs INCREASING.
Interesting Facts Concerning Births
and Mortality Are Brought
ont by Compilers Of
Figures.

Vital statistics snow tnat OWING W
modern sanitary reforms and the al
yancement of medical science, there
is a prolongation of human life now
in all civilized parts of the world. II
has been noticed for long time ina.
there has been marked increase OF
longevity in the United States, and
now the latest statistics prove that
in foreign countries similar copat.
ton prevails.
Sweden leads the world in low death
rate. The Swedes have kept vital sta-
tistics for more than $50 years. NC
other country has such ancient rec
ords 1t 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 lo
years previous to 1850 was 53.5 per
1000, ana this percentage has been
decreased gradually ever since, untn
1t is now only 800 per 1000, or the
lowest in the world.
There has been also decrease ID
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 ga per 1000 in 1850
to 4.3; for persons between 80 and Az
years of age it has dropped from lie
to IL per 1000, and for persons be-
tween 40 and so years Of age from 16.s
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 decided prolongation OF
human life in Holland. There the av.
erage life of man has increased from
| 35 to 81 years., and women from 80 tc
| 81 years, while the lowest death rate
among women is from 20 to IS year.
| Of age. In Great Britain and Ireland
says the report, there has been ar
improvement of about s per cent.
according to tables kept for 30 years
Notwithstanding the great immiera
ton from Germany, which disturbs tn
| calculations of the statisticians, lit Il
| found that the average duration of lift
in the empire is. considerably create
than it was 80 years ago. In Hungary
| municipal statistics for BUDAPEST
| and several other cities show de
crease of 20 per cent. in the averag
death rate, particularly among chill
dren. . ,'-
A Washington correspondent Of tn
Chicago Record Herald, who has beel
investigating these vital statistics
finds that there is no way of asce
tanning with accuracy the birth. rat
among the people of the United States
although such a record Is scrupulous
ly kept in the cities of Europe. Il
most American cities 1t is true tina
much attention has not been paid +
this subject Nevertheless, health au
thorities are taking hold of 1t at tn
request of statistical associations, an
the defect in regard to birth rates wi
probably soon be- remedied.
l. In New York and Washington Their
is birth rate given, as in Boston. 1
Washington the birth rate per 100
is 1913, death rate, 1872; in New Yorl
birth rate 2S9; death rate 226; l
Boston, birth rate, 26.5, death rate 49,
The highest birth rate in the worl
is at Cairo, Buenos Ayres being sec
ond; then come the great manufac
turing cities of England. The loves
birth rates are reported from Calcut
ia, Brussels and Paris.