| Show ine INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE ON THE DEATH RATE at a meeting in scotland of the royal society of edinburgh Edinbur gli dr stark stare r read pad a paper on oil the luene of marriage an on th the 0 death rate of men and women in scotland he based his calculations on the statistics issued by the registrar general and brought out results which III in a great measure he believed were wera now presented for the first time ha first showed the result in the case casa 0 of f men he found that between 20 and 25 years of age the death rate of bache lors was exactly double that of the married ri edmen men A As the age increased thedia ferenc ferene ein eln the death rate as against the bachelors decreased but auevery stage of I 1 life ife the ad vantage advantage was in favor of the mar ried men from 20 years of age to the close of life the mean age attai attal attained ned hed by married men was 5 years years while that of bachelors was only 40 years of age in other otar words married men had the chance of living 19 years longer than those who were unmarried from 25 years of age to the close of life the mean age of married men was 60 and 2 lobbs while that of unmarried men was only 47 and 7 koths veroy Veroa very nearly early one half of all the bachelors who w died had not attained 30 years of age int ift the case of married men by bk far the largest number died between 60 anal and 80 years of age the results dr stark thought clearly showed that the married state was the condition of life best fitted for mankind and that the prolongation of life by that state was a special provision of nature it was based on fixed laws of life married men were generally more regular in their habits better housed better cared for and more under the conditions of health and long life in the case of women also the results were in favor fagon of the married marr married lea iea as compared ared with the unmarried though the merence difference was not so marked aa as in the case of men married women died at a i regular proportion during the three quinque nial periods from 15 to from 20 to 25 and 25 to 30 but at a lower rate from 30 to 40 the the tho death rate in the case of married women was high er again between 40 and 45 years of akol akel age but the rate was tas in thein their favor again a anin nin ain from the latter period to old age in answer to prof kelland as to what the results were when calculated annually dr stark said it made very little difference prof brof kelland said the results arrived at were certainly very startling st artlin insurance rafice companies it appeared toot took some such difference into consideration but these results must rather stagger them he thought dr starks paper was most interested inte interesting and hoped t there tarp tapp e results would be maie mage made fully full fuli yand ind widely known dr christison made a few rei ref remarks narks to a similar effect lord thought etwas it was perhaps a question whether cheth e r th the long life ilfe life ilfe dap depended ended on the marriage 76 or r cheth jr er the marr marn marriage laze Iaze didiot did not d depend bedd a little on me conditions of iong long life there were men who did not ina lna marry marny rry rny b be e 1 cause they had not health or means and ana ana anu perhaps such circumstances as these must be taken into account if ther the results pl proved correct the insurance companies would of course faveto have to t take ak e them into consideration jt it is somewhat remarkable that report of the new york board of health published last month bri brings gs the tho sime same fact very strongly dolight tor to light of the sanitary static ians of edinburgh and new york were drawn to the same subject at the same time I 1 j i V the registrar of new york inserts in his report the following tables to show that the married state is more conducive ta health than single singie blessedness 1 I AVERAGE RATES RAZES OP OF MORTALITY T T I 1 PEI W I 1 1000 IN MARRIED MEN AND asdik asdis IX BACHELORS af aves ages ffirley ff 41 mt 41 7 U relea irlea 20 to 30 0 1113 SO to 40 avi 10 40 to 50 60 joa wio 3 1 1 50 t to goj 60 it F iss iv 60 to 70 MORTALITY perl peri doo A AMO ONG R ie 1 D I 1 AND olien yawl aad afo aff Unman U n M q med ct 20 0 to 25 A 98 98 gs nyema 25 to 30 ZM 90 go 90 92 30 to 40 A gi gl 91 1 92 10 0 to 50 60 gio lio doo ilo O nyk xii 0 O to 60 oo Al 4 63 t sf P 60 to 70 ua 1 buik Bulk bulletin tin I 1 J tu tre THE adventists of conne are re preparing to go up on or abb the of next june |
