| Show OPEN alb AIR FUK FOR HEALTH all the benefits that are ar supposed to derive from improved sanitation from better houses mid nd food frota roux advanced methods method I 1 ii medio inet and from the thousand and one other things that would naturally tf be expected tu to conduce to prolong ei life and Iner essed health the fact re r malir that without plenty ot of e jela harj abundance of pure opeo opec air the death ratu rate remains almost it if not quite last baub as at any time since medical reports were kept this at least ir the conclusion of 01 many experts in life insurance a brat bearch ch of business in it is to be expected that the closest examination will be made ol of mortality statistics stati stice ioe ly y in the tuby of the life ol of american presidents the foists joists find fiad support for their theory one ne expert figures at abid d lons are discussed to in a late issue isau of abe springfield republican proves lie be interesting tact last the later ister presidents do not compare well with the he earlier filer sees oo 00 in meeting the ex prota eions of life liw as derived from the izmir anost anoe tables table the indiver Indi individual vir ual record Is ii as an to follows ilowe age xa expectation years inauguration of lit lits lived washington 67 57 16 10 Adams john 62 is 18 28 jefferson fergon Jef 58 15 13 26 20 madison MadlA OD 58 is 15 27 monroe 69 16 15 15 adams john Q 53 59 is 18 22 jackson 62 13 16 van haren baren 66 17 24 harrlson harrison 08 68 9 0 0 tyler 51 20 21 pol 51 21 3 ta taylor ir 65 11 0 fill tore more 50 21 24 pierce 49 22 15 buchanan 66 11 11 lincoln 62 20 4 johanon Jo job haBon 57 16 9 grant 47 23 16 hayes hayea 54 E 4 19 16 6 garfield 49 22 0 arthur 51 20 29 5 total years 1178 8 average 56 17 it twe tula table sable unfortunately off with a feord that tbt Is contradictory con trad of the r greult sult sought to be established for lid did not live up to his hie expectation of lift 11 at the time of bl his inauguration but after him and until antil carribon Har riBon who stood at the ball century mark of the government every president survived eur up to and in most moet oases materially the be aforesaid for essid expectation of life lie from harrison down however it will be nt noticed iced that no co incumbent ot the office with the exceptions of tyler and Filim fore re has exceeded such expectation PP and only ont one bach Buch anam inao lived up to abe limit examining the he same facts in another way it will be that in the H at halt half century the prest preel dents dent bed bad RD an expectation at the time if f inauguration of living years yeara while in the aggregate they ived years beare during the lost halt bait century this etain over expect expectation atio e was lost loat soil 64 years yeara in the result la in certainly striking and to lg thus explained by the insurance authority this is ia not to be explained by coincidence or chance the caus cause e lies deeper it is true two of the last six presidents ideala were assassinated but the number of years lost by there thee the e violent deaths represent only half he aggregate loss the abe fact plain to 10 me that thai the denatal office is becoming too heavy a burden lor any man to assume without almost certain shortening of his life the responsibility is to io t o great the tension so destructive that I 1 never again expect to ee a president survive the lull period of his natural ion the contrast between the longevity of the early presidents and the latter ones is more noteworthy when we remember that medical science household houe hold hygiene and means of travel without exposure to the wea her have all had wonderful development t fince the days of washing on jefferson Jenera oo the adamsey Ad amses madison monroe and jackmon jack sod mou no matter how bow we explain the cause the fact remains that the early presidents lived long lives liver while modern presidents invariably die before their time tue conclusion would appear to be that the strain atrain and worry and habits of modern life in their ez exactions actions upon men in official and professional profesa imal life artless than freet by the in by gloo gleve etc referred to in abe case ot of the ion lived presidents it will be admitted we believe that aney were war forced to lead an out d or life much mure more than their later have hare i been and after leaving efflow they moy gen gea rally orally same came into close and ad contact with motha earlb and her best beat medicine fresh freeh air |
