Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1870 — Statistics of Life. [ARTICLE]

Statistics of Life.

The yearly mortality of the globe Is 83,333,333 persons. This is at the rate of 91,554 per day, 3,730 per hour, 62 per minute. Each pulsation of the heart marks the decease of some human creature. The average of human life is 33 years. One fourth of the population die at or before the age of seven years. One-half at or before 17 years. Among 10,000 persons, one arrives at the age of 100 years, one in 500 attains the age of 90, and one in 100 lives to the age of CO. —~ *- Married men live longer than single men. In 1,000 persons, 95 marry, and more msrriages occur in June and December than in any other month of the year. One-eighth of the whole population is military. Professions exercise a great influence on longevity. In 1,000 individuals who arrive at the age of seventy years, fortythree are clergymen, orators, or public speakers, forty are agriculturists, thirtythree are workmen, thirty-two are soldiers or military employes, twenty nine advocates or engineers, twenty-seven professors, and twenty-four doctors.— Good Health.

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