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SANITARY CONDITIONS
During the decade 1881—1890, the average length of life in
Norway for the male sex was 48.7, and for the female sex
51.2 years. Our country in this respect still ranks among the first,
though, in the above-mentioned period, Sweden surpassed us.
The longevity has been increasing steadily, and is now 5 years
more for males, 4 for females, than during the period 1821—1850.
At the same time, the mortality has decreased. During the 10 years
1881—1890, the average was 1.7 per cent (1.83 for men and 1.65
for women).
Of the 331,509 deaths entered during this ten years, 8927, or
2.69 per cent, are due to accidents, and of these, 6047, or about
68 per cent, to drowning. On account of the large coast
population, and the active share they take in shipping and in the
fisheries, deaths from drowning are comparatively more numerous in
Norway than in most other countries. This affects especially the
male part of the population, whose percentage of deaths from
accidents is therefore much larger than that of the women, the
two being respectively 4.54 and 0.83 per cent of the entire
number of deaths of each sex.
For a number of years the sanitary condition has been
satisfactory, without any alarming spread of epidemic or endemic diseases.
The geographical situation and climate are in themselves a
protection against many diseases. Yellow fever does not occur, nor has
the plague visited us in recent times; Asiatic cholera has not been
known for a long time, and ague and dysentery very seldom occur.
The most frequent epidemic diseases with us are acute bronchial
catarrhs (more than 40 per cent). They appear most frequently
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