WHY JEWS ARE HEALTHY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 December 1914, Page 7

WHY JEWS ARE HEALTHY.

"The Jews have boon the only people in the entire world who during tlie hist twenty centuries required that every animal killed for food should undergo n. post mortem examination," writes Dr. C. D. Spivak, of Denver, secretary of the Jewish Consumptive llokof Society, in an article in the "New York Medical Journal'' urging greater liberality among Jews as to permitting autopsies on their dead. These are allowed among tho orthodox only when thebaic "an honour to the dead ; when a human life can be saved thereby—for instance, when there is prcseut a sick man who suffers from the same malady from which the deceased died," but never for experimental purposes. Continuing in remarks about animals, Dr. Spivak says:—''Carcases found on examination to have sulfeied during life from an incurable disease or injury were considered trepha, or unfit to eat, and those found to be sound were considered kosher, fit to eat. There is no doubt that the longevity of the Jews and their comparative immunity to a. number of disease are duo to the fact that for centuries they have not ingested contaminated meat, it is quite incompreheus'bie why the other nations among whom the Jews dwell, and whose general culture was higher than that of the Jews, have not grasped the hygienic: importance of the Jewish method of post mortem evamination of slaughtered animals. Tt is only a few decades since the, civilised world nifi.cle the discovery of meat inspect/on and its bearing on the health of the people. And even in our (lavs the custom of meat inspection is'practised in a desultory manner."