CANNOT INCREASE LIFE SPAN.
A man of sixty to-day has 110 reason to expect to live longer than ho would live if he were suddenly transported back to the eighteenth century. The improvements in medicine, sanitary science and surgery are not for him. The average longevity of the Anglo-Saxon race has been increased by lowering the number of deaths among infants and 'y°P n £ adults, but the percentage of septuagenarians and octogenarians in the population remains the same. This is the conclusion reached by Frances E. Russell and E. L. Lucia, of the University of California, through comparative studies of the register of East Haven, a parish in the original colony of-New Haven, and from statistics gathered from modern Xew Haven. "The human body," they write, "will last only just about so long and will stand only just about so much. Assuming the same external conditions, it is difficult to find much evidence that the average physical constitution to-day is much more hardy or more enduring than 50, 100 or 150 years ago."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 10
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173CANNOT INCREASE LIFE SPAN. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 10
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