The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
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Women Living Longer Than
the Men in Topeka.
Average Death Rate in 1916
Has Been so Years.
GRIP CLAIMS ITS VICTIMS
Responsible for More Deaths
Than Amy Other Disease.
One Suicide and Case of Pei
Iegra on City Records.
GRIP CLAIMS ITS VICTIMS

The year 1916 is starting in to dem
onstrate that in Topeka the women
live longer than the men and that !he
average man and woman live to a ripe
old age.
Thirty-three years is considered the
average life. counting children. The
record made in Topeka for the last
twenty-five days almost doubles this
age. The average age al which death
occurred to Topekans since January l
is 50 years and 8 months.
Since the first day of January fifty
nine death of persons more than one
year of age have occurred in Topeka,
exclusive of suicides and accidents.
Thirty of them were males and
TWENTY-FIVE were females and the aver
age female lived four years longer
than the average male.
The record made in Topeka since
January 1 is considered remarkable by
the board of health people at the city
hall. Including all the children over
one year of age the average age at
which death occurred to the fifty-nine
people was SO years and eight months.
But the males fell below that aver
age. The average age for the thirty
seven males who died was IS years and
one month. The average age for the
females. including all children over
one year of age was 60 years and one
month.
Many Past Sixty.
Thirty-two of the people who have
died since the first of January were
over sixty years of age, many were
above seventy. not a few above eighty
and one over ninety years of age. One
noticeable thing about the death GER
tificates filed with the city clerk since
the first of January is the fact that the
deaths among the aged people are
pretty well punched. Nearly all of the
deaths during the extremely cold
weather and the grip epidemic that
preceded it were among old people.
The grip was responsible in some way
for almost half of the deaths that have
been recorded in Topeka since jan
uary 1.
The death rate among babies has
been very low. Only eight children
under the age of one year have died
so far this month. And there has
been an unusually small number of
deaths among children and young peo-
pie. Only three people between the
age of one year and twenty years
have died in Topeka in 1916.
Totals Are Large.
The total age of all the people over
one-year-old who have died since
January 1 is 3,515 years. The total
age of the thirty-seven men who have
died is 2,149 and the total age of the
twenty-five women who died is 1866
years..
While it does not show up in all the
certificates the grip was response Ole
Tor more deaths tnan any OIher one
disease. Many cases for which the
grip is responsible is charged to pneu-
monia and other causes. Pneumonia
comes second in the causes assigned
and in the grip epidemic this month
grip and pneumonia travelled hand in
hand. tuberculosis, the old standby,
claimed seven deaths as it's share.
There is one case Of pelIagra in the
list and it developed at the state hos
pital. There was one suicide ar the
county Jail and one man killed by an
engine.