The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-17
Unique Tables Of Vital Statistics 10 Be
Issued SOOn; Women Live Longer
thar Men, Due Partly to
Violent Deaths
INFANT MORTALITY
CONTINUES HIGH
Nearly Five Percent Of Boys Fail TO Sur.
vive First Month; DwelIers in Rural
Communities Fare Far Better
than Urbanites
By United Press

- IHlleu FreSS. W
Washington, D. c., April 17-Direc.
tor Sam l.. Rogers. of the Ruraau oe
the Census, Department of Commerce.
Is soon to issue a unique set of tables.
'ne first of their kind which have ever
peen prepared by the United States
government. These tables. which
were compiled in the division OF vital
statistics, under the supervision OF
PROFESSOR James w. Glover, Of the
University of Michigan, show death
rates and expectation of life at all
ages for the population of the six New
england states, New York, New Jer-
sey, Indiana, Michigan and the Dis
trict of Columbia (the original death
registration states) ON the basis of the
population in 1910 and the mortality
Tor the three years 1909, 1910 and
1911. They are similar to the sslife fa-
ples' prepared by life insurance COM
panies, but differ from them in that
they relate to the entire population of
the area covered. whereas the life in
surance tables relate only to risks se-
lected through medical examination
and otherwise.
Expectation of life, at hirtli, in a sta.
tionary population-tha is, one in
which the births and deaths were
equal and were the same from year to
year and in which there was no immi-
grafton or emigration--would be the
same as average age at death, which
is calculated by totalizing the ages Of
all deceased persons and dividing the
result by the number of deceased per-
sons.
According to these tables the aver
age expectation of life, at birth, for
males is 1919 years; for females, 53.2
years; for white males, 53.6 years.;
for native white males, 500 years; for
native white females, 54.2 years; for
negro males. 97.7 years. Females are
thus longer lived than males to the
extent of more than 3 years, and in
the case of the native whites and me-
groes, more than 31a years.
The expectation Of life at the age Of
is considerably greater than at birth,
being 56S years for native white
males and 59.5 for native white fe-
males, and reaches its maximum at
the age of 2, when it is 57.5 for the
farmer class and 60.1 for the latter.
At the age of IL the average native
white males expectation of life is
50.2 years; at 25 it is 39.4 years; at
40, 2S9 years; at SO, 21.2 years; at so.
las years; at 20, 81 years; and at 80
90 years. Similarly, at the age of 10
the average native white females ex-
pectation of life is 52.6 years; at 25
it is AIS years; at 40, 3O.S years at SO,
22,S years; at so, 1873 years; at 20,
9.S years; and at so, 5.5.
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
four-fifths of these violent deaths
suicides, homicides and accidental
deaths-are of males, and such deaths
form about or per cent of the to-
tai number occurring each year. This
fact, however, does not account fully,
or even in major part, for the greater
longevity of women. An examination
of the tables discloses a lower death
rate for females than for males dur
ing each Of the first II months OF life
and, in the case of the native whites.
during each year of ife up to the age
of "a. During the first month Of life
the death rate among native whites is
nearly 2S per cent higher for boys
than for girls, and during the first
year it is more than 20 per cent high
er.
Infant Mortality Still Higher.
The enormous waste of infant lifo
which still goes on, although medical
science has done and is doing much