[Cz-L] Life expectancy in Czernowitz around 1890.

You probably all know about Daniel's project to digitize birth,
marriage and death data available only on microfilms and therefore
being difficult if not impossible to find when searching for relatives
or friends.

I have recently registered on excel for Daniel data on deaths for the
years 1887 to 1892 (those whose family names commence with an S) and
was (may be unjustifiably) surprised by the high rate of infant
mortality and low average life expectancy of the Jewish population in
those years.

Out of 159 death records 76 were of children who died at age up to and
including 2 years old, that is nearly 48%. Of the 83 persons of age 3
and up, half died less than at age 38 (median), their weighted average
being 42.6 years.

Do not know how this compares with data from other places or
populations at that time, nor if the number considered is
statistically sufficient for drawing any conclusion. But in the
future, the project once finished will surely provide, as secondary
gain, an interesting inside into the conditions our grand (or grand
grand) parents lived and died.

Berti.

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