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Show RABIES HAVE CHANCE TO REACH 100 YEARS Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical Association, Associa-tion, had good news for infants last week : Given proper care in childhood, he said, a baby born today to-day can expect to live to be 100. Latest old-age statistics show that human life expectancy has jumped from 47 in 1900 to 65.8 in 1947, will reach 67 by 1950. From there it will keep climbing but for a different reason. While greatest longevity advances so far have resulted from preventing infant in-fant deaths (more hospital-births, i cleaner milk, etc.) , bigger progress prog-ress from now on will come from adding to the life-span of older people. One result: a greater proportion pro-portion of the U. S. population in the "over 65" age group. 1 |