Show O i Daily Health Service Servi One Person Per on in 26 Reaches Reache 90 Year ear Analysis nal Show Sho 1 By Rr DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Med leal ical Association and of the Health Magazine 1 One of every twenty six white perSons persons per per- r. r sons in the United States Stales lives to be bemore bemore bemore more than 90 years old This interesting fact has hu been brought broucht out by Dr Raymond Pearl who recently finished an analysis ol ot the he diseases and causes of or death of ot the thc aged aced Strangely enough your chances of living to be 90 Ire are better if you are a wom woman n. n For women nearly one in twenty live to be 90 00 The percentage for men is lower The usual cause of oC death for lor persons persons per per- sons over 90 Is 13 senility which merely means the person grew old and died Actually of course even though a person may wear out at the age of oC 90 it il is probably some special organ among the important parts of the body that breaks down and is the primary primary mary cause of death Dr Pearl has shown hown that from th thage the age of 60 GO to the end of oC life lile the death rate assignable to breakdown of th the circulatory system i is higher than that tha associated with any other system o othe ot of the body It has been pointed out previously that the heart hearl begins beating beatin long before be be- fore the human being is born and works constantly to the moment o of death It is not nol surprising therefore that the breakdown of the circulatory circulator system should be today the leading cause of oC death after middle age The woman past 90 is no longer affected by the causes of ot disease associated as with the reproductive organs organ and the kidneys whereas the man after 65 years of age ge is still liable Hable to prostatic difficulties Indeed most o othe or of orthe the serious Illness of men after 65 i is associated with such uch trouble People who live to 90 years of acedo age ace agedo agedo do so because they begin with constitutions con con- that are arc superior and resistant resistant re rc re- re to infection Throughout infections and other harmful forces force which surround us take off oft the theand theand a and leave e the stron strong Medical knowledge and skill tn In Improved cd sanitary conditions an increasingly large amount of sj sic ness fleas and death before 50 years o of aej ag Ultimately Dr Pearl points ou there is b a of group croup o extremely old p pIe e for whom infections have no p nai ISi terrors The They have develop their resistance Most of them die b caus town down constitution or system breal Dr Dr- Pearl Is b convinced that if it an considerable num number r of people are i t live longer loncer than they now do it be ie n CP fn s ft A u w wi j 1 man hUl hUlu lu u U acquire D t some means not yet clear a tory ory system organically superior i the one that he now nov has |