San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-07
Increasing the Adult
Expectation of
Life

fight against those diseases to which mature adults are
particularly susceptible
In other words science is making greater progress
In saving life in younger than in middle and later
ages This fact is confirmed by the mortality expert
Of SO legal life insurance companies during
1924 and 1925.
During an address at the annual convention of the
Association of Life Insurance Presidents meeting at
New York last week, the medical director of we'll
known company cited the mortality census for 1900 and
Tor 1922 as the basis for several pertinent observations
while the gain in the expectation of life has not
been as extreme has been claimed it has been ma
ter1a one but largely in the earlier ages The gain has
been practically limited to that group of diseases cassed
as infectious and which due in almost every case to
the definite action of known bacteria
1T is equally clear that among those disease class
ed as crculatory (hear disease disease of arteries
br1ghts disease apoplexy, angina pectoris embolism
and thrombosis, and diabees) there has been distinct
loss
In other words it appears to be clear that the
medical profession and others actively engaged in
health work, have learned to handle those diseases
which are the result of infection by known bacteria but
that aside from this group little if anything has been
accomplished
In studying the importance of the changes which
are taking place should be appreciated that the dis
eases In which there has been improvement are those
affecting infancy, childhood and young adult life that
individuals who have attained the age of 30 have large
~ passed by their particular susceptibility to this group
OF diseases, while crculatory disease as a whole and
also Its component parts has its beginnings at about that
age and the whole affects those of middle and late
life.
| The director, after studying $4,000 individuals
upon whom physical imparments had been reported
and by placing them in occupaonal CLOUDS reported
his conclusion follows:
The incidence of crcuIatory disease is in inverse
relation to the of physical exercise which tho
group taxes In the open air and other things being
equal is in direct relation to the amount of nervous
| and mental strain"
The childs health life is controlled by its elders
The child has individual responsibility On the other
| hand the adult charts and steers his own course In
consequence mans greatest enemy is himself He kills
| himself by his own acts
One Of the advantages to living in a mild and
equabe climate such is characteristic of San Antonio
the better opportunity afforded for outdoor life Ly
ing and working conditions here are such that il is DOS
ble for all occupatona groups to have plenty of fresh
air and sunshine Furthermore these conditions tend to
alleviate nervous and mental strain But the adult can
BY his own volton only take advantage of these cond
/ lions.
/ for the guidance OF the self-neglected adult he
| gives five rules for health:
1. Do not follow ideas BECAUSE they are new
z Do not follow fads and become extremists in
your habit Of life the Lord had intended you to be
herbvorous he would not have given you teeth in the
upper jaw. If carniyorous you would have had canine
teeth and claws with which tear your meat You were
created to be omnivorous-therefore eat plainly of
mixed diet Fuel necessary for the creation of energy
and oxygen for the combustion of fuel AS much energy
is needed for mental effort for physical The working
horse needs more grain than the which stands in the
| stall.
g. Treat yourself you would your bank account
Make more deposits than you draw checks and you will
create which will be available in those phy
cal and mental emergencies which to us all Many
| Of the symptoms which have and the conditions
which are demonstrated examination are simply no.
tees from the bank that account is oyerdrawn
a. Circulatory disease is largely personal affair
and its prevalence is IN inverse relation to the amount
OF physical work done in the fresh air The more con-
filming occupation the important it is for you
A. I~~.- L..