The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-25
LIVE TOO FAST,
 AFRAID TO DIE
Interested in H e a l t h Only Because of Fear,
 Warning.

life are increasing instead of decreas ing. In the last twenty years the death rate during the first five years of life has been greatly lowered, but for the later years of life it has not. Il is poor economy to educate and train business men and women only to lose their services to the community and state when they reach middle life"
 These are some of the deductions made by Dr. M. P. Ravenel, Profes sor of Preventive Medicine, in charge of the Public Health Service Labora tories at the School of Medicine of the University of Missouri. The Bureau of the Census has recently sent ad vanced information on new life tables which are soon to be issued. This will be the second official publication on life tables ever issued in the United States, and figures are now available for the last twenty years.
 People are interested in health largely because they are afraid to die,'' Dr. Ravenel, who is also president of the National American Public Health Association, continued. "The true motive for health should be efficiency and not the mere prolongation of life.
 'The results obtained by our Gen. sus Bureau shows that the death rate at practically all ages is higher for men than for women, and the women showing the lowest death rate are those living in rural communities. For both sexes rural dwellers show a low CT death rate, age for age, than for persons living in cities.
 While the average span of life has increased for both sexes there is no evidence that there has been any ac- tual increase in the years of life. This is explained by the fact that practi- cally all classes of people are living longer on the average, and the great est cause of this average increase is the saving of life in the first five years.
 'In 1909 a white female was en- titled to expect three years longer life than white males, and in 1910 this had increased to three and one half years. Except for negroes, there has been a general improvement for all classes up to the age of forty for men and fifty for women
 There has been a decided improve ment among all classes of population in the infant death rate Again, we find that children born in the coun- try show considerably lower death rate than those born in the city. How ever, it is not as great as 1t was in 1901, which indicates that the wide spread efforts which have been put forth to better conditions in our cities have met with success.
 JOUR LIFE IS LESS"
 "Comparing ourselves with the fol- lowing foreign countries, Australia, Denmark, England. France, Ger many, Holland, India, Italy. Japan. Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, we find that, except for France, India and Japan, our expectation of life both for men and women is less favorable than in any of the foreign countries mentioned
 "In Norway, for example, which shows the lowest annual death rate for the first year of life, for every thousand the rate is eight-one deaths for males and sixty-seven deaths for females, while for the corresponding class in this country the rate is 127 for males and 105 for females The most striking thing about these fig ures is the great improvement in our death rate during the early years Of life and the lack of improvement after fifty years of age-in fact, after fifty W. diseases have become worse instead of better.
 "The American lives too hard and too fast. It is poor economy to edu- cate and train business men and wo- men only to lose their services to the community and state just about middle life, when they should be at their best.
 'This is the problem which con- fronts physicians and sanitarians at the present day and one which de- mands the closest consideration not only from professional persons but from the community at large.'
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