OUTLIVING MEN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 18

OUTLIVING MEN

SOME PROGNOSTICATIONS (From "The Post's" Represantative.) NEW YORK, loth October. "Women are now leading an easier life, With less drudgery, better care, and better health. They are outliving men of the same age and the same apparent health. Of this, ample evidence is forthcoming from the life charts of leading life insurance companies. The general lifo expectancy of all Americans has gone up in the last score of years from about 48. to 58, This is due to the saving of infant life. Among these of maturer age, however, the life expectancy of women appears to T>e increasing, while that of men seems to be breaking down. Women take more interest in their figure; hence in their diet, than men do. Women, furthermore, have more leisure, usually get more rest, and havo more absorbing interests and hobbies than their husbands. The latter, according, to the statistical Commentator, "spend so' much time grubbing for a living and then worrying about it that they die somewhat younger thaii their wives." Men arc finding business: competition too great a strain, and they are dying consequently more often of heart disease in the fifties, '.and sixties. . '• ■ : i The most recent statistics show that 48 men out of every 100 alive at 25 will live to be 70; if they reach 50, then 56 out of every 100 Will live till they reach the allotted span of three score years and ten. The proportion of old people will increase in America, due to the decline in the birth rate, infantile mortality, and immigration. ..;....../. '.'••■...