The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-06-05
DURATION OF NE.
STATISTICS SHOW THAT LON
GEvITY rs INCREASING.
Interesting Facts Concerning Births
and Mortality Are Brought
Out by Compilers of
Figures.

Vital statistics show that owing 10
modern sanitary reforms and the au-
vancement of medical science, there
is a prolongation OF human lie no"
in all civilized parts of the world IL
has been noticed for a long time that
there has been marked increase Vi
longevity in the United States, ana
now the latest statistics prove that
in foreign countries similar condl-
lion 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. 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 III
years previous to 1850 was 535 per
1000, and this percentage has Deeh
decreased gradually ever since, until
it is now only 26.9 per 1000, or the
lowest in 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 ga per 1000 in 1850
to 4.3; for persons between 80 and Az
years of age it has dropped from lib
to IL per 1000, and for persons be-
tween 40 and SO years of age from 1913
TO 95. The death rate as we'll as the
rate of iiliteracy of the two countries
on the Scandinavian peninsula is the
lowest to be found anywhere in the
world.
panies find a decided prolongation OF
human life in Holland. There the av-
erage life Of man has increased from
IS to 81 years, and women from 80 to
81 years, while the lowest death rate
among women Is from 20 to 80 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 it was 30 years ago. In Hungary,
municipal statistics for Buda-Pesth
and several other cities show de-
crease of 20 per cent in the average
death rate, particularly among chill
dren.
A Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record-Herald, who has been
investigating these vital statistics,
finds that there is no way of aster-
tanning with accuracy the birth rate
among the people of the United States,
although such record is scrupulous-
ly kept in the cities of Europe. In
most American cities it is true that
much attention has not been paid to
this subject Nevertheless, health au-
thorities are taking hold of 1t at the
-euuest of statistical associations, and
the defect in regard to birth rates will
probably soon be remedied.
In New York and Washington there
is a birth rate given, as in Boston. In
Washington the birth rate per 1000
is 1913, death rate, 1872; in New York,
birth rate 2S9; 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
ond; then come the great manufac-
turing cities of England The lowest
birth rates are reported from Calcut-
ia, Brussels and Paris.