Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1908 — Jewish Longevity. [ARTICLE]

Jewish Longevity.

Superficial scrutiny, of the vital statistics yields the Jew* a prominent position In the sanitary world, if longevity serves as any Index of hygienic living. With tbe average length of life for all Christian people placed at thir-ty-six years eleven months (1900) the Jew may hope to reach fprty-eight years nine months. Neufvllle (1855), inquiring Into tbe comparative, duration of life and causes of deaths of Jews and Christians to Frankfort, learned that one-fourth of the Jewish population waa living beyond seventy-one years, while only one-fourth of their neighbors was living beyond tbe age of fifty-nine yearsten months. Abbott claims that “they (1. e. Jews) are much leas frequently tbe subjects of tubercular and scuteepidemic diseases than any other race of mankind.” Why should this seeming vital superiority exist? According to Richardson, "the causes are simply summed up In the terra *sobernecn of life.’ The Jew drinks less than tola ‘even Christian;* he takes, as a rule, better food; he marries earlier; he rears the children he has brought Into the world’ with greater personal care; be tends tbe aged more thoughtfully; he takes better care of his poor and he takes better care of himself.” To this might have been added that through religions customs hygienic tendencies became an Inheritance—Dietetic and: Hygienic Gazette,