Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-21
FATAL MIDDLE AGE.


 ing stories They full of surprises. The stranges thing them just is the they show be tween the health life chances of the very young middeaged
 Our present American civilization it appears save your life when useless baby and then cuts vol down at the height of your powers.
 Looked broadly, the mortality records for the las thirty years for deep satisfaction. In the 1SsO the registration district" of the United States twohrds of the country in which careful record were kept-the death 19.6 per thousand. IT
 1900 was per thousand. 1910 it down 15 and in 1912 it only 199 per thousand, still drop ping with amazing rapidity. There is a dminution o about 30 per total in single gene ration.
 So far, goodi But that's only part of the story The paradoxcal fact is, Dr. LewinskiCorwn of the New York Academy of Medicine points out that although the average length of fife people of this country has increased we do not die older than used when the death higher
 The increase the average duration of fe by the decline death rate failed to proong the
 life of those persons who forty years of age" The gain is all in infancy and early youth. The death diseases which infancy childhood and adoles peculiarly liable has decreased materially, pecialy since 1900 The diphheria death has drop ped 40 per The death from diphthera and teriis children under years of has dropped S3 per Typhoid fever and tuberculosis far less tai to the young.
 But it is a baiing fact that this seems give gain in economical Our babies saved, to die when they They the formerly ia tai ailments of infancy succumb in numbers the degeneratve diseases of maturity
 In the thirty years in which the saving of child life has materially lowered the general death rate, the mortality of those 40 has increased least per Brighs disease, diabetes, apoplexy cancer, diseases of the blood vessels etc., take heavier toll.
 There various explanations for this One is that in saving the lives of children who formerly would have died tura selection And these children succumb later in life when normal children survive.
 Another and perhaps better explanation that he gansm at 40 is what the preceding years made it. and dying off in forties because of the cumu lative strain of hard work and unnatural living.
 Involved in this reasoning is criticism of whole modern industrial system The work unduy hard unwholesome factories mines and live in unhygenic houses and healthfu food clothing recreation
 isn't merely the workers who break down in mid dle age It's just much the business and professional They too, feel the strain of i'll adaptation to changing exactng and unwholesome environment which makes them live in crowded cities and constantly stimulates their nerves.
 There three specific evils, however, according to Dr. Lewinsky Corwin that actually promote this middle age mortality the ignorance of personal hygiene even in it's smper forms, which is found among the masses generally The second is alcohol potent tributor toward health decadence and fife waste The third is social immortality with its train of destructive diseases All these three in the control of society Neglect deal with them-especially the last of which our communities have as yet taken adequate notice is inexcusable
 in forties the that it takes and women at the beginning their period of greatest usefulness society. The Oser theory that we're worthless after forty has been abandoned. All of presidents have been over forty of them fftyfve. Nearly all the big in the present European all over sixty Most worlds greatest have done their greatest work after forty. And at forty Americans begin to go to pieces.