Show DURATION OF LIFE statistics SHOW THAT LON IS interesting facts concerning births and mortality are brought out by compilers of figures vital statistics show that owing to modern sanitary reforms and the advancement van cement of medical science there Is a prolongation of human life now in all civilized parts of the world it has been noticed for a long time that there has been a marked increase 0 longevity in the united states and now the latest statistics prove tha in foreign countries a similar condl alon prevails sweden leads the world in low death rate the swedes have kept vital sta tor more than years no other country has such ancient rec it is said that all countries can estimate the improvement in the death rate for 10 15 or 20 years but in sweden the average mortality of ahll dren under 10 years of age for the 10 years previous to 1760 was 53 5 per 1000 ana this percentage has been decreased gradually ever since until it is now only per 1000 or the lowest in ohp world h there has been also a decrease in the death rate of all ages in sweden the stalls 1 show the rate tor per fehns between 10 and 20 years of age has fallen from 64 per 1000 in 1760 0 o 43 for persons between 30 and 40 year of age it has dropped from 11 5 lo 10 71 per 1000 and for persons be tween 40 md 50 years of age from 16 5 to 9 5 the death rate as well as the rate of illiteracy of the two countries the peninsula la the lowest to be found anywhere in the world the of insurance corn panics find a decided prolongation of auman life in holland there the av life of man has increased from 25 to 57 5 ears and women from 39 to 61 years while the lowest death rate among women Is from 20 to 35 years of age in great britain and ireland says the report there has been an improvement of about 5 per cent according to tables kept tor 30 years notwithstanding the great alon from germany which disturbs th calculations of the statisticians it 1 found that the average duration of UK ata the empire Is considerably greatel than it was 30 years ago in hungary municipal statistics tor buda besth and several other cities show a de crease of 20 per cent in the averatt death rate particularly among ahll dren A washington correspondent ot chicago record herald who has beao investigating these vital statistics finds that there Is no way of ascer kalning with accuracy the birth rate among the people of the united states although such a record Is scrupulous ly kept in the cities of europe in most american cities it Is true that much attention has not been paid tc this subject nevertheless health au les are taking hold of it at the request of statistical associations and the defect in regard to birth rates wll probably soon be remedied in new york and washington there Is a birth rate given as in boston in washington the birth rate per is 19 8 death rate 19 2 in new york birth rae 28 9 death rate 22 6 in boston birth rate 26 5 death rate 18 4 the highest birth rate in the world is at cairo buenos ayres being sec ond then come the great turing cities of england the lopesi birth rates are reported from calcut ta brussels and paris |