Show rural glasses classes longest lived census bureau also finds women at all ages have better chance for life GIRLS HAVE BEST CHUCE CHANCE examination of mortality tables in dicatos decided improvement in infant mortality rates expectation pec tation Is increased washington D 0 abe dep department artmont of Ceni commerce merce through the bureau of census announces that the second official publication on life tables derived front from births birt lis deaths and populations Is toon soon to be issued these tables show conditions as they existed in 1690 1600 in 1001 and in 1910 1010 thus milking making it possible to study the changes cli anges which have taken place in mortality during two mci decades it Is shown mortality at practically all agos ages Is higher among men than among women won ien in particular it appears that tile most favorable mortality in this country Is found dillong bonien living in tile the rural districts tile the rural clas classes ses regardless of sex enjoy a much lower kowt r mortality tor for nearly the entire range of life than those hose living in tile the cities while tile the expectation of life both among men ind and women women in most classes has i dlly increase there is no indication di of any definite lengthening of if the span of life in other vicci words As w while ille almost all lasses classes of persons are liing to an cider average age tile the age of human life doe snot seem to haie advanced girl babies have best chance in cwi the expectation of life among white girt girl babies at birth was as r about three years more titan among white males and in 1010 1910 the lie excess in favor of the girls lad had increased to almost three and a half tears ears there seems to mohave have been a general improvement for all classes tor for the ages up to about age forty tor for wen men and age fifty for iu women inen except for the negro degro population above these ages no im pr Is shown and in some cases the merta mortality lity at the older ages in 1910 was it actually less favorable titan than it was in 1001 1901 an examination of the lie afif infant ant mortality ty tables indicates a decided improvement lit in the infant mortality rate rate in most classes of tile population between 1901 ind and 1010 the expectation of life of children born in 1910 1010 also shows a considerable improve merit ment over the expectation of life fire or of children born in ISDO and 1001 anil and practically all classes of 0 tile population the infant mortality in the he tural districts was considerably lower than that in the urban districts both in 1901 1001 and 1010 1910 but the difference in favor ot of tile the rural districts was net its as great in 1910 as it wits in 1901 indicating that ohp efforts to improve infant mortality 9 conditions in the cities are undoubtedly tr meeting keeting success c Q 8 life ilfe tables are also giden by sex for australia denmark england france C germany erinani eri nany Il holland olland india flair italy inpan noway norway sweden and switzerland they nifty be used to compare rates of mortality anti and expectations of life at any age in one country with ith those of any other country or with N ith those in the united state santos low mortality in norway A comparison with chete countries shows that except fer france india and japan tile lie rates of modality morl allty aina among ng men and women tire arc less favorable in tills this country than in the foreign countries mentioned for example exall all aple tile ION lowest est annual rate of mor ellit y a thousand at birth Is found in to be about 81 for 0 1 m males ales and ga for females nv while vill 11 for a slin similar tiar class in tills lilt cIlI it is about 12 27 tor for males and 10 for feidi females ties tills this Indi entes that there I 1 Is s still much room for lin proe ment in this country tile the most important mortality tables used by life insurance in in this country and in crelin countries are included in tills this publication |