The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

November, 1927 The Health Bulletin 29
the mortality among the young white
women of this age group was 2.6 per
cent in excess of that for males. In
two recent years the mortality among
young females has actually exceeded
that among males by more than 50 per
cent.
This reversal of the sex incidence
has taken place during a period when
the death rate has declined 65.2 per
cent among white males at these ages
and 46.6 per cent among white females.
That is, the death rate has declined
much faster among the males than the
all the favorable factors that have
operated to bring about a declining
death rate from tuberculous disease,
among all races, in each sex, and in
each age group, young white women
have not shared the benefits to the
extent that has obtained for young
men.
We cannot emphasize too strongly
the point that this changed sex incidence
in the mortality from tuberculosis
should not make us less optimistic
as to the future of the campaign
against this disease. We simply call
TUBERCULOSIS AMONG YOUNG PERSONS
DEATHS PER lOQOOO, WHITE MALES AND FEMALES, AGES 20 TO 24 YEARS
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY INDUSTRIAL DEPt 1911 TO 1926
DEATHS PER lOQOOO INSURED
500
250
\
200
150
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