GERMAN MORTALITY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 257, 25 July 1919, Page 8

GERMAN MORTALITY

SIGNIFICANT FACTS. Somo highly significant facts have been published by the New York Life Insurance Company, the largest organisation of ite kind >n the world, in a, bulletin which will be of special interest to those, who think thut the people of the United State are wise in adopting ,1 policy of national prohibition. i'ho mortality figures of tho company's policy-holders in Germany during Iho four years ot war, from August 1, I'JK, to July 31, 1!H8, have just been compiled by tho company's chief actuary. These figures show that the lnorta-'.Hy, including deaths on the battlefield, was 12 per cent, less for tho .war period ol four years than for the 11 ..years ol peace 'immediately preceding. Commenting upon these rather surprising statistics, the company's chief actuary says:— "It is probable that this has been the result of restrictions in diet, limitation in the consumption of alcoholic Tievernges, and a large amount of exercise which the Germans of middle life, tho bulk of our insured, . have had lo stand." In bringing these significant facts to the attention of its agents and policy-holders, the company states that they "point a way to longer lifo for the average man, to wit: restricted diet, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks, proper exdrcise."