LENGTH OF LIFE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 December 1914, Page 2

LENGTH OF LIFE.

LOWER RATE OF MORTALITY

[ Some tables published in the New t Zealand Year Book for 1914, show that people live longer nowadays than they did in past times. Working on the basis of the census returns for the various quinquennial periods, the statisticians publish the results of their enquiry into two periods, that of 1901-5 and 1906-10. The complete tables with explanations will be issued later. Meanwhile, enough is published to show that the nearer the statisticians get to the present day ? the longer is the expectation of life and the less the rate of mortality. To take one sample from the tables showing the expectation of life (calculated upon mortality figures). It is shown that a male child aged one, has a. lair chance, on statistical evidence ot what has happened before, to live another 63.125 years. At the age of 21 a youno- man may expect to live smother 46 years 4 months. At 40 his expectation of life is set down at 31 i years, and if he has survived the buffetmgs of existence till the age of 58 the statisticians say he is likely, on the iZVs*' tO b6 *" g<>od" for another 16.8/2 years. A woman of 50 has longer expectation of-life, the period being calculated at 18.220 years