Archbishop Chaput may call these and war deaths ‘very late term abortions.’
Constance Coldspring
has sent this piece which shows the results of 8 more years of
Compassionate Conservatism.
*
By Annie Linskey | annie.linskey@baltsun.com
October 16, 2008
In West Baltimore’s impoverished Hollins Market neighborhood, where the average life expectancy is about 63 years, residents shared beers and cigarettes on their front steps at midday yesterday while pedestrians using canes gingerly avoided two dead rats on the street.
Across town in wealthy Roland Park, where residents live on average to be 83, the scene predicably changed. One gray-haired woman rushed to swimming lessons, while a family rode past on bikes and a man with an iPod jogged nearby.
The two-decade difference in life expectancy between Hollins Market and Roland Park was revealed in data released yesterday by the city Health Department, which for the first time has compiled comprehensive death data on a neighborhood level.
The results are striking. In some impoverished neighborhoods, the death rates from heart disease and stroke are more than twice as high as in wealthier places just a few blocks or miles away. At the extreme, the difference in mortality rates between some neighborhoods is as wide as the disparity in life expectancy between the United States and a Third World nation such as Burma.
***
Note: Blue represents the harbor, lakes and reservoirs
where a terrapin has a better chance
than a poor person to hit the century mark.
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.death16oct16,0,3636975.story