WOMEN OUTLIVING MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 12

WOMEN OUTLIVING MEN.

STRAIN OF BUSINESS. STATISTICS IN AMERICA. [FHOM OT'R OWN' CORRESPONDENT.] NEW YORK. Oct. 15. American women are now leading an easier life, with less drudgery, better care and better haalth. 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. Tho general life expectancy of all Americans has gone up in the last score of years from about 48 to 53. This is duo to the saving of infant life. Among those of maimer age, however, the life expectancy of women appears to bo increasing, while that of men seems to be breaking down.

Women tako more interest in their figure, hence in their diet, than men do. Women, furthermore, have more leisure, usually got muro rest and have more absorbing interests and hobbies than their husbands. The latter, according to the statistical commentator, "spend so much tirno grubbing for a living arid then worrying about it that they die somewhat, younger than their wives." Men are finding business competition too great a strain and they are dying, consequently, more often of heart diseaso in the fifties and sixties. The most recent statistics show that 48 men out of every 100 alive at 25 will live to ho 70; if they reach 50, then 56 out of every 100 will live until they reach the allotted span of three score years and ten. The proportion of old people, it is calculated, will increase

in America, due to the decline in thfc birth rate, infantile mortality and immigration.