The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-06-16
DURATION OF LIFE.
STATISTICS SHOW THAT LON
GEvITY 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 adj
vancement of medical science, there
is a prolongation of human life now
in all civilized parts of the world. II
has been noticed for Il long time mai
there has been a marked increase OF
longevity in the United States, II
now the latest statistics prove thal
in foreign countries a similar condl-
ton prevails.
Sweden leads the world in low death
rate. The Swcdes have kept vital sta
tis;ics for more than 100 years. No
other country has such ancient re"-
ords. 1t is said that all countries can
estimate the improvement in the deall
rate for 10, l. or 90 years, but III
Sweden the average mortality Of chill
dgen under ~ years of age for the ~
wears previous to 1860 was 30 per
1000. AM this percentage has been
decreased gradually ever since. uat'i
it is now only 2G.9 per 1000, or the
lowest in the world.
There has been also a decrease IN
the death rate Of all ages in Sweden.
Tho statistics show the rate for per
sons between 10 and 90 years Of age
has fallen from "a por 1000 in 1850
10 80: for persons between 50 and 80
years Of ago il has dropped from 10
to IL por 1000, and for persons he
tween 40 and 30 years of age from l6.'
TO 95. Tho death rate as well as IN"
rate Of illiteraCy of the two countries
on the scandinavian peninsula IS inc
lowest to be found anywhere in tho
world.
The aCtnarics of insurance com
panics find n decided ~prolunGation of
human life in Holland. There the aH-
eraGe life of man has increased from
- to - years. and ONE from ~ 10
CT years. while the lowest death rat"
among women Is from 90 TO - years
of age. In Great Britain and ireland,
says the report, there has been an
Improvement Of about > per cent.
according to tables kept for 80 years.
Notwithstanding the great immigra-
ton from Germany, which disturbS the
calculations of the StatisticianS, II Is
found that the average duration OF life
in the empire is considerably greater
than it was 80 years ago. In Hungary.
municipal statistics for Buda-PeSth
and several other cities show Il de
crease Of 30 per cent. in the average
death rate, particularly among chill
drcn.
A Washington correspondent OF The
Chicago ReCOrd-EIerald. VINO has been
investigating these vital statistics,
finds that there is ~ way of aster-
tanning with accuracy the birth rate
among tho people OF the United States,
although such a record is scrupulnus-
| ly kept in the cities of Europe. In
most American cities il is true that
much attention has not been paid 10
this subject. Nevertheless. health an
thoritieS are taking hold of it at 'he
request of statistical associations, and
, the defect In regard TO birth rates vii
probably soon be rcmedied.
In New York and Washington her,
is "A birth rate given. as in Boston. II
= Washington the birth rate per l,OWi
y, is 1913, death rate, 1872; in New York
birth rae $50; death rate 22.G, II
II Boston, birth rate, 2G.5, death rate lS,A
The highest birth rate in the wDrlc
is at Cairo, BucnOs Ayres being soc
ond; then come the great manutac
turing cities of England. The loves
birth rates are reported from Calcut
" IA, Brussels and Paris.
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