Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — Woman Longer-Lived than Man. [ARTICLE]

Woman Longer-Lived than Man.

In accordance with the doctrine of influx, and in accordance with the functions of the brain, we are compelled to recognize health and longevity as more closely associated with, the higher than the lower faculties, the moral rather than the anflhal nature. This -up the reason that woman, with a feebler body, but a stronger moral nature, ranks higher in health and longevity than man. And although from 4 to 5 per cent, more males are born, women are generally in predominance, often from sto 6 per cent. The researches of the Bureau of Statistics of Vienna show that about one-third more Women than men reach an advanced age. De Verga assorts that of the sudden deaths there are about 100 women to 780 men. The inevitable inference is that the pnltivation of virtue or religion is the purest road to longevity, and the indulgence ia vice and crime the most certain ruin to the body and soul. There is a carious illustration of these principles in the evidence of life insurance companies in reference to spirit drinking and abstinence. The two oldest life insurance companies of England, the General Provident aqd the United Kingdom, have made records for forty-five years which distinguish the total abstainers and the moderate drinkers. Drunkards they do not insure at all. The care with which lives are selected for insurance results in a smaller rate of mortality among the insured than in the entire population. This gain was but slight among those classed as moderate drinkers, for their mortality was only 3 per cent, less than the average mortality. But among the total abstainers it was 31 per cent less. Thus the proportion of deaths among moderate drinkers compared to that of total abstainers is as 97 to 69. —The Journal of Man.