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Show World's Death Rate Drops The death rate for the present generation continues to fall nearly everywhere on earth and the expectancy ex-pectancy cf life has Luc. eased generally gen-erally in all age-gTOUs, but mcst for babies, according .to statistics contained in the League of Nation Yearbook. In the United States, according to this authority, a white girl born in 1935 could expect to live 64.72 yea. the highest expectancy of life for any child on earth. A white boy, born in the same year, could lcok forward to four years less expectancy, but, even so, his chance for long life was better than in any other country excepting Denmark. It is interesting to observe that an infant, born in India, could expect ex-pect only twenty-six years of life. In Japan, it is stated, the average is fitty-six years. These figures reveal that children born in the United States are blessed not only with the political freedom and economic eco-nomic advantages that are unrivalled unrivall-ed in the world, but that they have a prospect of living longer than children born in other countries. |