Show LIFE AND DEATH IN GEORGE TIME COMPARED WITH THE PRESENT when george washington was born bom in 1732 average duration of life was a little over 30 years toj to j day the average duration of life in the united states is 60 years A gain of approximately per cent in the last two centuries this great loss of life was due to the fact that so many deaths oc cured in infancy and childhood those thos echo who survived beyond the age of of 40 in this hazardous era had i j as great an opportunity to attain old age as we do I 1 during the revolutionary war there were said to have been only 1200 qualified doctors in the colonies when washington died in 1799 t there here were four schools of me medicine dicine perhaps one of the most widespread s P r e a d and t terrible e r r i bl e m ministers in t er s 0 of f death during bis era was s smallpox m a 1 lp ox smallpox m a 1 1 p 0 x ha has s both t h a aided ide d and retarded colonization of america since the disease removed entire hostile indian tribes but caused innumerable deaths among colonists i the indian princess pocahont I 1 taswal one of its earliest victims ra during the revolutionary wa war smallpox caused havoc with bothi both I 1 the american and british armies it was necessary to set aside one of the four military hospitals for smallpox in 1796 dr edward jenner demonstrated that vaccination with cowpox conferred an immunity against the more serious smallpox small pox president resident jefferson of the united states was a firm believer in this procedure and had himself vac faccin ein abed in 1806 because of universal vaccination smallpox has long since ceased to be a menace to human health healt li it will never be a common pestilence again unless the people are lulled by a false sense of security and proceed to neglect this infallible method of prevention another fearful plague of ing tons time was yellow fever which visited america on 35 occasions between bet veen 1702 and 1800 one of the worst of these visita visitations tolis was in 1793 when washington was the president in philadelphia one out of ten persons died of yellow fever the last outbreak was 1905 in new orleans since 1900 when major walter reed and his brave colleagues discovered that y yellow fever wis ads spread by the bite of certain ta n mosquitoes this disease has been conquered by man another respiratory disi dig bercu losis was widely pro pre time causi five times the mortality ort allty tt t corded for ti this is dla disease se tod in 1794 the first lop local al health in the country wis wa in philadelphia i when we compare sanit sani editions and the prevalent ease in time more or less satis facto hy hygiene giene of today we call canle that we live in a modern era the grea great colonial leri plagued our colonial ances disappeared from the scene the residue of co conn adies of today would also d c or would be greatly persons would take an t in interest in their own hea he that of the community they live and constantly a established principles of sanitation and health pro VERLE BAKER counts count |