British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 707

CHAPTER XVI.

Table 11.

Palestine Moslems

India

2. Egypt**

Bulgaria.

I Survivors at age of

0 I 6• I 1s ; 5Q_

11.000 I 616 J 568 i 398

1,000 60*1 554 417

1,000 650 617 463

1 000 I R49. r.o~ 4?8

2 4 6 7 7 4

(M

1926•27 F

1930-32 1:

1936-38

-•--- --- ~~~ l ~.
1: 1,000 670 638147
1,000 655 626 49
r; 1,000 726 694 52
1,000 708 683 fifj
1: 11,000 7251689 52
1,000 703 673 54
1: 1,000 758 727 57
1,000 740 716 59
I
M 1,000 602 541 24
F 1,000 628 568 21
M 1,000 641 530* 29
F 1,000 678 560" 29
M 1,000 735 703 54
F 1,000 754 719 54
M I 1.000 785 757 54
F 1,000 799 I 16~ 54
- 1939-41

1942-44

2

1931

1927-37

0 0

9 2

4 s

4. Japan

1925-28 i 1926-30

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It appears from table 11 that the saving of human life resulting from the progress in health conditions realised during 1926-1940 in Moslem Palestine has been considerable. The number of children surviving at age 15 is higher by 26 per cent. in 1938/40 than it was in 1926/27; the number of people reaching age 50 is higher by more than 35 per cent. In 1926-27 Moslem Palestine was at a level not much better than that of India, one of the countries where the waste of human life is greatest, and was in a condition similar to that of Egypt***. In 1938/40 Moslem Palestine is, from the point of view of mortality, on a much higher level than both of these countries and is very similar to an European country like Bulgaria and not far from Japan the most progressive Asiatic country in this respect.

172. From the life tables mentioned above a synthetic measure has been calculated, namely the expectation of life at birth (see
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* Age 20 .
** From Clyde V. Kiser (article quoted in footnote on page 97).
*** As they appear from Egyptian tables for 1927 /37.

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