Jewish Longevity by N. Y. Observer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Jewish Longevity.

By N. Y. Observer

Facts have been collected to prove that the average length of life is greater among Jews than Christians, under similar circumstances. In London it is stated that the death rate of Christians is fourteen per cent., of Jews only ten. It has been shown that in Frankfort the Jews live eleven years longer than the Christians, and that of those who reach the age of seventy years, thirteen are Christians and twenty-seven are Jews. In Prussia, from 1822 to 1840, it has been ascertained that the Jewish population increased by three and a half per cent. more than the Christian, there being one birth in twenty-eight of the Jews to one in twenty-five of the Christians, and one death in forty of the Jews to one in thirty-four of the Christians.—N. Y. Observer.