Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1917 — Life Expectancy. [ARTICLE]

Life Expectancy.

According to the public health service, life expectancy during infancy and childhood has increased because of the more intelligent care of babies and young children, but life expectancy after the age of forty is less now than it was 30 years ago because those who have arrived at years of discretion do not exercise discretion for themselves and take sufficient exercise to overcome modern conditions. Many more people are engaged in sedentary occupations than formerly, which deprives them of natural assistance afforded by physical exercise in eliminating through the skin and lungs the waste products of the body.—Collier’s.