Show AND HAft SPAN Of tI LifE NEW YORK May 7 When 7 When tuberculosis and other othir preventable causes of excessive mortality are mastered when those less than 60 50 tell the truth about their youth and those more than 80 SO do the same ame about their age it may be possible for actuaries to figure on years as the span of life liCe The natural death rate has lias largely de decreased decreased de- de creased but the decrease decrE-ase is almost entirely en en- en confined to the infantile period Over 50 60 the decrease age has been very small or Cr an actual increase has been shown by statistics From 1889 to 1901 there was a decrease of seven In e each cacti thousand of population ia f In the h total 1 number rOU of t deaths but the rate late of deaths from heart art disease cancer certain functional ailments and suicide Isa Ise is 50 per e cent higher her In the United States i m than a the l mortality O from f the same causes fifty years ago These TheM and many other interesting facts about the duration of human life were presented e by John K Gore of Newark n 13 N. N J. J the e president t of t the Actuaries Actuaries' a so society so- so clety of America Amerl a. a at the twentieth annual annual annual an an- nual meeting of the association In the Metropolitan building |