New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1922, Page 11

10 YEARS MORE OF LIEE 15 POSSIBLE ‘Insurance Expert Says Nation's ealtt Is Grovwing Better* New York, Dee. 6.—Life insurance | death claims, up to November 1, show {that the United States and Canada are this year experiencing a health | record almost identical with that of 1921, which was the best in public health history. A survey of these claims covering the deaths for the first ten months of 1922 among 29~ 000,000 insured persons was submit- ted to the Sixteenth Annual Conven- tion of the Association of Life Insur- {ance Presidents here by Dr. Augustus #, Knight, medical director of the {Metropolitan Life Insurance company of this city. This year's experience with a low dcath rate is considered all the more remarkable because the first quarter of the year began with a much higher mortality than did the corresponding +period in 1921, Two successive low "anpual death rates are regarded as more than a coincidence, and are be- lieved to be a fore-runner of a dis. tinet permanent improvement in na- , tional health conditions. ) T. B, Cases Fewer, . ¥, Still further material reductions are ‘noted in 1922 in deaths from tuber- culosis and typhoid fever, while sul- )'cldcs, homicides and children's dis- ficages, with the exception of measles, ialso show some decrease, . On the other hand, automobile @c- cidents, organic heart ailments, cere- bral hemorrhage and Bright's discase caused more deaths this year than in 71021, Mortality from heart disease, tawhich led as o cause of death last year, shows a large increase this year, a total of 180,000 deaths being-tdi- -«cated in continental United States and Canada. [ “Nineteen twenty-two has been an- other remarkable year in® public ‘pealth history,” said Dr. Knight. “The figures for the first 10° mapths ghow a death rate just about as good “as the unsurpassed record of 1921, Forty-four life iMsurance companies which, together, carried over 83 per ‘cent. of the total ordinary business of ithe United States and nada, have had 2 mortality rate in 1922 of 6.4 ideaths per 1,000 lives as compared {with 6.5 last year.” In other words, .the mortality rate_this year in the ‘ordinary field is a little more than one per cent. better than last year. The records of the five companjes e~ porting on industriul life ‘insurance, ‘swhich comprises 53 per cent. of -te itotal industrial business, show a death \rate this year of 9.6 .per 1,000, . as comparcd with 9.4 Jast year, “whilfivs @ little more than ‘oiig per.cent. ér than the record 6f 1021, If icombine the ordlary and industrial business, the rategfor this year is al- most identical with that for last year, the figures béing 8,32 for 1922 as compared with, 8.28 in ;1221 or less than one-half ‘of ‘ongpier cent. in ex- ‘cess this year. ¥ 5 b Decline € azy which. bpgan afteththe influenda 1B Didemic ih1918 and in the éatty paft of 1889, and which means so. much Jfor the insurance business as well as for the public welfare, appafently icontijues | it is not a temporary bens ©fit whigh we enjoy in the recorded experience of the t few years. 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