Show M low women fast losing the advantage they formerly hado had statistics show washington women are aire fast losing tho the advantage which they have possessed in tile the past of a lower rate of mortality than men it Is indicated by life insurance statistics tho rho excess mortality of men over women it Is said eald has been ono of tho the supposed fixed relationships in vital statistics in tho the united states tho the death rate rata ot of mules has always been found to t bo be higher than that of fei females nales nt at every age period from birth t till III death and this condition has prevailed quite generally throughout the civilized world in recent years however the mortality of females has haa actually been higher than that of males among the industrial policy holders of tile tho insurance companies in tho the united states and canada in 1011 tho the mortality of white males insured in ono company was more than 18 13 per cent higher than among females while tho actual excess in male mortality varied somewhat from year to year the condition continued up to and including 1018 change changa also alao noted in negro race flace the he year 1010 1910 was marked by a sudden drop to about 5 per cent and by 1020 a 6 reversal in the relationship had become a fact with the female mortality 20 per cent above that of males in 1021 1921 it wits was IS 1 2 per cent higher in 1022 the condition was again changed to an excess of 12 per cent in molo male mortality over that of fer females nales in the negro race the difference between the death rate of the two boxes was never so strikingly marked but nevertheless between 1012 and 1018 1918 the excess of male mortality was continuous varying from 2 to ab about out 10 per cent the year 1010 1019 was the th first year in which tile the mortality of 0 females actually exceeded that for males and this condition has continued since including the year 1022 tho the fact thair rever reversa sait appears among both white and negro lives ts is considered significant very similar relationships in we the mortality rates of males and females are apparently indicated dica ted it to Is pointed out in tho the fig ures ores for the registration area during tho the corresponding years and light Is thrown on tho the possible factors factora by con olde ration of the age periods of life where these changes chances were most pronounced noun ced greatest at childbearing child bearing dearing age it la Is shown that among white persons tho the excess of female mortality was entirely limited to the ages of twenty to thirty four in 1021 and to fifteen to thirty four in 1020 among the negroes it occurred between the ages of ten and thirty four in 1021 ten and twenty four in 1010 and one and thirty four in after age of thirty five the male mortality has continued to bo be higher than the female throughout the rest of life the ages says the report are definitely those of child they at which the influenza are arc also the ages epidemic mado made its ita greatest inroads and in which tuberculosis showed tho the most moat pronounced decreases during tile tho last decade it I 1 Is a entirely cn conceivable Ibl comments tho the statistician that each one of these three items played nn an important part in tho the pho consideration attention under has bas been repeatedly called in recent years to the excessive mortality among women from causes incidental to pregnancy and childbearing child bearing these excessive maternal death rates having it Is said tho the greatest reluctance toward improvement the influenza epidemic beginning with 1018 it Is thought may have been tile tho exciting causo cause for much of this increased maternal mortality it having been noted earl early v in tile the influenza outbreaks that women at tho the childbearing child bearing ages suffered buffered excessively from the disease tills this condition has been marked with cacti new liew outbreak of influenza it Is further brought forward that there Is no question as to the greater reduction of tuberculosis mortality among males than ilian among females and this to Is strikingly marked in tho the ages under con consideration |