Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1874 — Chances of Living. [ARTICLE]

Chances of Living.

A medical writer of eminence has been collecting evidence as to the chances of life which children have, upon being born, in different countries. Out of 10,000 children born it is found from official statistics that in Norway as many as 7,415, or, roughly speaking, three out of every four, live to be twenty years of age. In England only 6,627 so live, or 788 fewer than in Norway. In the United States boys have nearly as good a chance of life as in England, while girls have not. But in France only 5,022, or scarcely more than one out of two, reach twenty. While in Ireland no more than 4,855, or actually less than one out of two, attain that age. More surprising still are the statistics regarding old age. Out of the same 10,000, for example, we learn that in Norway 3,487, more than one out ot three, reach seventy; in England almost one out of four; in the United States, still men only, one out of four—a trifle higher than England; in France 1,776, or about one out of eight and a half; and in Ireland only 861, or one out of eleven and a half. If this table is to be depended upon, we thus learn that of all countries in the world Norway offers the fiew-bom child the best chance of long life; while Ireland offers the worst. And France, universally admitted to be, so far as soil and climate are concerned, one of the most favored regions of the earth, offers but little better chance than Ireland. —Augusta, Ga., received 200,017 bales of cotton during the commercial year just closed. The stock on hand Aug. 30 was 5,488 bales.