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Excerpt from The Increasing Mortality After Age Forty Five-Some Causes and Explanations On the main subject at issue I am constrained to conclude that there is no evidence to support the contention that the true mortality rate of the country has increased after age 45. The problem will be decided definitely only when a new set of life tables, similar to those issued by the Census Bureau for the year 1910, appear at later decennial periods. No such data are now at hand. Enough facts are in evidence, however, to warrant the conclusion that the changing constitution of our race stock is responsible for the slight increase in mortality that has occurred. It is perfectly true that the marked de creases in mortality which are characteristic of the earlier ages of life do not continue after age 45. Nor could they be ex pected to under any circumstances. Immortality is not one of our characteristics. Persons who do not die from the in53] The Increasing Mortality after Age forty-five. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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