A LONG-LIVED RACE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8358, 4 November 1898, Page 4

A LONG-LIVED RACE.

. SOME REMARKABLE TACTS ABOUT > THE HEBREWS. p Probably few persons outside statistical ; circles arc aware of the fact that tho Jews . are considerably longer lived than any other civilised race. Of 100,000 Hebrews born on the same day thero will be 50,681 males and 49,316 ; females. At the end of the first year the 100,000 Jewish infants will have established in a most remarkable way their superiority in ; point of vitality, for only 8,091 will have . died, as compared with 14,192 in the ,• English experience, and 16,706 Americans. , Striking as this difference iB, it will bo . found to he practically maintained throughout the later stages of life. At . the end of five years only 13,844 Jewish f children out of the 100,000 will lmvo died, » while out of a similar number of English ■ children 24,679 will have joined the great i majority, and America will still keep her bad pre-eminence with 26,912 angels. Making a leap to middle ago, the deaths at fifty years of age will have been 26,519 Jews, as compared with 49,079 English ; and at age sixty-five the mortality returns will stand at 37,442 and 66,110 respectively. , But the full force of the comparison is hardly seen until the point of EXTREME OLD AGE is reached. At eighty-five years no fewer than 25,135 of our 100,000 Jews will be still living, while the survivors of the English bund will be a meagre 5,56b'. Besides the curious reversal of the usual proportion of males and females, there is another unique feature in the Jewish statistics. Tho general experience ia that the averago duration of life is higher with tho femalo than with tho male. The opposite is the case with the Jews. Of the '25,135 Jewish survivors at the age of eighty-five, there will be 16,225 men and only 8910 women— a percentage of 64' GO males and 35-40 females. The English experience shows that at that age 59-90 per cent, of tho survivals will be females and 40 - 10 males.