Air, food, and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease / [A. Rabagliati].

  • Rabagliati, A. (Andrea Carlo Francesco), 1843-
Date:
[1897]
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    said that to-day in England, in spite of all our progress in medicine and surgery, only one out of Only about four or one out of five persons born into the \vox\d ihfpopni^^^^ attains the age, not of 70, but even of 65 ]'years^ofagef while about two-fifths of all the deaths that happen not 70. occur among children under 5 years of age. These results do not appear to be satisfactory. In our towns it is the same. In 1892 there were registered in Bradford 3927 deaths, and of these only 926, or 23 per cent., were of persons over 65 years of age. I may perhaps have to refer to the rate of mortality among children under 5 years in Bradford, and to show that if it has fallen (as it has) it is because a smaller number of children are born than there used to be. But to pursue the inquiry into the general state of the public health. The result of the improvement effected in the last thirty or forty years, looked at as a whole, has been to diminish mortality at the early ages. More children reach maturity now than was the case formerly ; but above the ages of 35 for men and of 45 for women the mortality has increased on the whole rather than diminished. Thus, comparing the rates of mortality among Comparison males at various ages in the three years with that of the mortality of males at the same a^es • o 1 r 11 • ^50 years m i»9i-2-3, the following results appear :— at different From 5—10 years of age, in the former period the mortality averaged 84 per 1000 living. In the latter period it was 4 8. hrom 10—15, in the former