Statistics

The estimated populatlon of the world on January 1, 1S95, was 1,500,000,000. The microscope shows that the human body is covered with scales, each scale eoverlng 500 pores. Huxley's tables show that the human body is made up of thirteen different elements, of which five are gases and elght solids. Figures by experts in vital statistlcs prove that not less than 4,847,500,000 human beings die on our globe each century, The latest anthropological statisties prove that In America the daily, monthly and yearly number of births exceed the deaths in the ratio of 3 to 1. Taking the world over, there is an average of one death and one and onefourth births per second. Only one-half of all who are born into the world live to the age of seventeen years. Vital statistics prove that, taking the world over, there are 109 women to every 100 men. Out of every nine sudden deaths reported, eight of the number are men.