Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — The Expectation of Life. [ARTICLE]

The Expectation of Life.

Notwithstanding improved- medical knowledge and the benefits of modern sanitation, we are dying earlier than our grandparents did. I’iie United States census shows a considerably increased death rate for all age~, over sixty years. At the same time, it still holds good that the average expectation of life has been lengthened during the past decades but‘it is only the younger Individuals who profit by this practical result ot the advances in medical knowledge.