The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
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 long time that
there has been marked increase of
longevity in the United States, and
now the latest statistics prove that
in foreign countries a 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 It 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 1760 was 53.5 per
| 1000, and this percentage has been
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-
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| has fallen from ga per 1000 in 1860
| to 4.3; for persons between 80 and 40
years of age it has dropped from Ills
to IL per 1000, and for persons be-
tween 40 and so years Of age from 1865
to 95. 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. 80
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 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, it 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 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 ascer-
tanning with accuracy the birth rate
among the people of the United States.
| although such a 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 it 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
ond; then come the great manufac-
turing cities of England. The lowest
birth rates are reported from Calcut-
ia, Brussels and Paris.