WHY JEWS ARE HEALTHY.

Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13067, 7 January 1915, Page 6

WHY JEWS ARE HEALTHY.

' "Hie .lew* have been the only people i" th« entire world who during the lust '.JO centuries required that every animal killed for food should undergo a I'ost mortem examination," writes l»r C D. Spiyak, of Denver, secretary of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society, in an article in the New York Medical Journal, urging greater liberality among Jews us to permitting autopsies on then dead These are iillowed among the orthodox only when tliey ure "an honor to the dead, when human lite can be saved thereby- of lor instance, when there is present a auk man who suffers from the same malady from which the deceased died," but never for experimental purposes. Continuing his remarks about ar-imals, Dr. Spivaksays: "Carcases found on examination to have suffered during life from an incurable disease or injury wero considered trepha, or unfit to eat. and those found to be sound were considered kosher, fit to eat. There is no doubt that th« longevity of the Jews and their comparative Immunity to a number of diseases are due to the fact that for centuries they have not ingested contaminated meat. D is quite incomprehensible why the other nations among whem the Jews dwelt, and whose general culture was higher than that of the Jews, have rot grasped the hygienic impoitance of the Jewish method of post mortem exsminatlon of slaughtered animals. It is only a few decades since the civilised world made the discovery of meat inspection and its bearing on the heslth of the people. And even In our days the custom of meat inspection is practised in a desultary man-