El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-18
Death RATES AND.
LIES CHANGES
Important Figures Compiled
By the Government Re
garding Terms of Life.

Washington. ID. c.. April 1S.-Direc-
tor Sam l.. Rogers Of the bureau OF
the census department OF commerce
lis soon 10 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 i'm the division OF vital sta
tistics, under the supervision or Prot:
James w. Glover OF the University OF
Michigan show death rates and eN-
pectation of life at all ages for the
population OF the six New England
states New York New Jersey. Indiana.
michigan and the District Of Columbia
Nthe original death registration states
on the basis Of the population in 1910
and the mortality for the three years
1909, 1910 and 1911.
Women Live Longer Than Men.
According TO these tables the aver
age expectations Of life, at birth, for
males is 49.9 years; for females, 90
years; for white males, RO.2 years; LOT
white females, $50 years; for native
y white males. SOC years; for native
white females, $40 years; Tor negro
males S41 years and Il,,, for negro ME ies
longer lived than males to the extent
OF more than three years, and IN the
case Of the native whites ana negroes
more than three and one-half years.
The expectation OF life at the age OF
! Is considerably greater than at birth.
being SOS years for native white males
, and $50 for native white females, and
reaches it's maximum at the age Of .,
when il is SIS for the former class
and SOL for the latter At the age OF
IL The average native white males eN-
pectation Of life is So years; at 70 Il
IS 39.s years: at 40. 2S.3 years; at so,
21.2 years: at so, 14.6 years; at 20. 81
years; and AT SO. So years Similarly
at the age of 10 the average native
white females expectation Of life is
52.G years; at % il is AIS years; at 40,
5O.5 years; at 80, 22.S years. at 90, lbs
years; at 20, 9.S years; and at so, %
years.
More Men Die violently.
a part OF the difference between ex-
pectation Of life for men and for wom-
en- Us due TO the greater number OF
Tfolent deaths among men. Nearly
kur-Hfths Of these violent Deaths
Suicides, homicides and accidental
deaths-are OF males. and such deaths
FORM about or percent OF the total
number occurring each year. This
fact. however, does not account fully,
or even I'm major part, for the greater
longevity of women. An examination
Of the tables discloses a lower death
rate for females than for males during
each OF the first u months OF life and,
in the case OF the native whites. during
.srtfch year Of life up 20 the age of "a.
|puring the first month Of life the death
rate among native white is nearly 70
percent higher for boys than for girls.
and during the first year IL is more
than 20 percent higher.
Infant Mortality stiH High.
which etiil goes ON, although medical
science has done and is doing much TO
arrest f. is shown by the exceedingly I
high death rates which prevail among
infants under I year Of age. OF 1O0.-
600 native white boy babies born alive,
1875. or almost percent. die during
the first month. and 1862. or 1876
percent. die within one year The
girl habvs chance OF life is consider
ably better, the death rate among ma
live white females during the first /
Hivc, or lose than percent, and dur /
ng tho first year 1880 per 1907 900, /
a. nearly 1o5 percent
on its first birthday however. the Il
likelihood that a child viii die within Il
the year iF only about one-fourth as Il
great as IL was at birth. the death rate /
among native whites during the sec
males and 2610 per 100, coo for females. |
frhe rate continues to decrease until /
the 18TH year OF life-that IS, the per- /
I'd between the 18th and 18th birth /
|ays-durinC which II is only 22S per 4
TOO. 600 for males and 19S per 100000 [
for females. This. the figures indi- |
cate is the healthiest year OF life /
among native whites.
MedIan Age at Death.
To say that a persons expectation l
'of life is a certain number Of years is Il
not the same as saving that he has an [
even chance Of living that number Of I
YEARS. This is because, as already eX-
Iplained, expectation Of life represents !
1.-THE average remaining length OF life, 1
~ any given age, in a stationary pOpu- /
Iition, whereas an average person in \
given group has an even chance Of /
living to what is called the median /
hge at death. that is, the age below 1
which half the members OF that group /
wiD die. The median age at death for 4
Bal native white males in the assumed |
stationary population would be so; i
hat is TO sag, Of q given number OF 1
fuch males born alive. half would die J
before reaching so and the other half !
{ 60 and beyond.
City and Country.
The relative hcalthfulness Of city
and country Is stri kinEly shown by 1
the tables, according TO which the i
Heath rate among white males under J
year OF age I'm cities having 5000 l
inhabitants and over In 1903. and I'm 4
titles of 10000 and over in 1910 and i
911, is 1880 per 100000 born alive, /
Whereas in small places the corre-
ponding rate Is only 1896 per 1907 1
90, or 20 percent less than the rate i
or cities. A similar difference pre- /
ails with respect TO white females
lnder I year Of age, for whom the /
cath rate i'm cities is 11,123 per 1907 |
100 born alive, while IN rural localities
{ IS only 1897 per 100000, OF "A per-
hent less than the urban rate.