The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-19
CENSUS EXPERTS
DECL ARE WOMEN
OUTLINE MALES
Director Rogers Will Issue
Unique Set of Tables on
Vital Statistics.

4OGS4 ~ OAOkos
Washington, April 19-Director
Sam L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the
Census, Department of Commerce, is
soon to issue a unique set of tables,
the first of their kind which have
ever been prepared by the United
States Government These tables |
which were compiled in the division
Of vital statistics, under the super
vision of Prof. James w. Glover, of
the University of Michigan, show
death-rates and expectation of life at
New England States New York, New
Jersey, Indiana, Michigan and the
District of Columbia (the original
death-registration states) on the ba-
sis of the population in 1910 and
the mortality for the three years 1909 /
1910, and 1911. They are similar to
the .life tables prepared by life in
Surance companies, but differ from
them in that they relate to the en-
tire population of the area covered,
whereas the life Insurance tables re-
late only to risks selected through
medical examination and otherwise.
Expectation of life, at birth, in a
stationary population--that is, one in
which the births and deaths were
equal and were the same from year
to year and in which there was moi
Immigration or emigration-would be
the same as average age at death. |
which is calculated by 3totalizing the |
ages of all decreased persons and di-
viding the result by the number of
deceased persons, kt4
4 According to these tables the aver |
age expectation of life, at birth, for
males is 49.9 years; for females So 2
years; for white males, 50.2 years; for
white females 53.6 years. for native
white males, SOC years; for native /
white females 54.2 years; for negro
males, 23.1 years: and for negro fe-
males, 37.7 years. Females are. thus
longer lived than males to the extent
of more than three years, and in the
case of the native whites and ne
groes more than 1-2 years.
The expectation of life at the age
of is considerably greater rnanI at
birth, being 56.8 years for native
white males, and 59.5 for native |
white females, and reaches its max
imum at the age of q, when it is 575 |
for the, former class, and 60.1 for
the latter. At the age of II the aver
age native white males expectation of |
life is s5O.2 years: at rs it is 80 years; |
at 40. 1873 years; at so. 21.2 years; |
and at so, 81 years Similarly, at
the age of IL the average native white |
females expectation of life is 52.6 /
years; at rs, it is Ais ye1i's; at 10, |
80 8 years; at SO, 22.8 years; at go,
1873 years; at 70, 9.S years and at
80, SIS years.
A part of the difference between
expectation Of life for men and for
women is due to the greater number
Of violent deaths among men. Nearly
suicides, homicides, and accidental
deaths-are of males, and such deaths
form about or 8 per cent. iof the |
total number occurring each year. |
This fact, however, does not account
fully, or even in major part, for the
animation of the tables disc1oses a
lower death-rate for females than for
males during each of the first twelve
months of life and in the case of the
native whites, during each year of
life up to the age of ninety-four.
During the first month of life the
death-rate among native whites is
nearly % per cent, higher for boys
than for girls, and during the first
year it is more than 20 per cent.
higher.
The enormous waste of infant life
which still goes on although medical
science has done and is doing much to
arrest it is shown by the exceedingly
high death rates which prevail among
| infants under one year of age. OF
100, 900 native white boy babies born
alive, 4,975, or almost 5 per cent. die
during the first month, and II, 602, or
1926 per cent. die within one year. The
| girl baby's chance of life is considera-
| bly, better the death rate among ma
1 tive white females during the first
month being 1884 per 100000 born
alive, or less than 4 per cent. and dur
| ing the first year 10,46o per 100,0 900,
or nearly 10.5 per cent.
On its first birthday, however. the
| lik elihood that a child will die within
the year is only about one-fourth as
great as it was at birth, the death rate
among native whites during the sec
ond year being 2.841 per 100000 for
males, and 2,610 per 1000 for fe-
males. The rate continues to decrease
4 until the twelfth year of life-that is
| the period between the eleventh and
| twelfth hdays-during which it is
! only 22S per 100000 for males and
1913 per 100000 for females. This.
4 the figures indicate, is the heaIthiest
year of life among native whites
| Thereafter there is a continuous in
crease in the death rate from year to
year. During the forty-efghth year of
! life, in the case of native white males
/ actly what it was during the third
/ year, 1886; during the sixty-second
year it is 2,919 per 100000, or a little
more than during the second year.
/ 2,841; and during the eightfeth year
it is 12,184, somewhat less than
during the first year, 1862. Similarly,
= among native white females the rate
kduring the fiftieth year, 112O is a
RHttIe less than during the third year.
i 1,144; during the sixty-third year it is
! 2,543, or somewhat less than during
the second, 2,610; and during the
! eightieth it is 1O,901 per 100, 900, or a.
little more than during the first TO-
I 46O. The native white man at the age
of 102 and the native white woman at
80 have approximately the same pros
pect of dying within one month that
they had at birth.
To say that persons expectations
Of Life is q certain number. of We, Is