Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — Longevity Is Greater. [ARTICLE]

Longevity Is Greater.

Since 1900, nine years have been added to the life of the average Washingtonian. Figures showing this was yesterday made public by the district health department. They were taken from a chart prepared by Dr. Arthur L. Murray to be part of the district’s exhibit at the international congress on hygiene and demography. That the average Washingtonian has gained nine additional years in the last twelve is due, partly, to better sanitary conditions, and, partly to a reduction in the rate of infant mortality. The average Washingtonian lives to the ripe old age of forty-one years, one month, and sixteen days; in 1900 he died at thirty-two years, two months, and twenty-four days. If the average Washingtonian persists in gaining nine years in every twelve, the Society and Oldest Inhabitants will be the most, important body in the district by the yaai ?h-3C