In diphtheria, indeed, the number of girls attacked
is in excess of that of the boys, and it does not appear that their
mortality is higher when this is considered.[78] Statistics based on
nearly half a million deaths from scarlet fever in England and Wales
(1859-85) show a mean annual in males of 778, and in females of 717,
per million living.[79] Dr. Farr reports on the mortality from cholera
in the epidemic years of 1849, 1854, and 1866, that
the mean mortality from all causes in the three cholera years
was, for males, 19.3 in excess, for females, 17.0 in excess
of the average mortality to 10,000 living; so females suffered
less than males.... The mortality is higher in boys than in
girls at all ages under 15; at the ages of reproduction, 25 to
45, the mortality of women, many of them pregnant, exceeds the
mortality of men; but at the ages after 65 the mortality of
men exceeds the mortality of women.[80]
Statistics show that woman is more susceptible to many diseases,
but in less danger than man when attacked, because of her anabolic
surplus, and also that the greatest mortality in woman is during the
period of reproduction, when the specific gravity of the blood is low
and her anabolic surplus small.
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