Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1929 — Page 23

OCT. 4, 1929

LIFE SPAN SET BT MOSES YET REMAINS LIMIT Modern Science Unable to Increase It Past 70 Years. Bv Science Service MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 4.—When Moses stated that seventy years was the length of a man’s life, save for exceptional cases, he set a limit that all our modern science has not been able to overstep. In spite of the remarkable progress In public health practices and in medicine during the last century, we can not hope that the span of human life will be lengthened. Dr. I. Dublin told members of the American Public Health Association here today. A study of the mortality figures since 1920 among the general population of the country and among the insured of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company shows a decreased ability for people to live much longer than sixty-five years, Dr. Dublin said. "The expectation of life has Increased, but the span of life has remained stationary. A fundamental j distinction must be made between the two. The former, which is the average length of life of people in a stationary population, has shown I appreciable gains and will continue \ to increase as public health improves and more and more diseases are brought under control. "The latter has remained stationary for a long time and It is j altogether unlikely that man will j be able to do anything to change iW The span of life seems to be fixed j by the nature of man himself. His ; internal structure wears out after j so many years of work and use and I he appears unable to master, its weakness or give it stamina to last longer. "That twenty years have been added to the average length of human life since public health work began to be practiced actively in the early eighties# of the last century is true. But this gain can be traced to the reduced mortality of infants and to the cutting dowm of the unnecessary and preventable deaths of young people from typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever; smallpox

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and a host of other diseases, which for the most part affect persons under 40 years of age. "Improvement, after the age of 40. has been slight and limited almost altogether to women. This lack of improvement is all the more striking in view of the great effort

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