Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1909 — Average Length of Life. [ARTICLE]

Average Length of Life.

The man who lives till he is more than a century old and the child who dies in infancy are alike included in the law of averages. They balance each other’s chances as it were. Of 100,000 people living at the age of 10, only 95,614 will live to the age of 21, only 82,284 will be living at 40, only 49 will be living at 96, and only 9 at 97. At 30 the average man may take it that he has under 35 years to live; at 40, under 2*B years; at 50, under 21 years; at 60, under 14 years. In each and all of these cases how he lives will determine whether he will have a longer life or a shorter life, but the average will Infallibly work out within a space of •0 yearfe. A noted Belgian bacteriologist, Dr. Leon Bertrand, claims that he has discovered a much more powerful serum as a cure for pneumonia than that now in use. It Is a bactericidal, not an antitoxic agent . The oldest Roman Catholic College In the United Btales is Germantown College, Georgetown, D. C.