SURVIVAL OF THE COCKNEY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 4

SURVIVAL OF THE COCKNEY

! LONDONERS UVtm LONGER, ' Onto it- used to bo said and believed . that tlio true Londoner,, t'ho "OOekney," iliod out in three gsiiei'ations.' 'This may havo been true once,-but.it is not tiio, osso jiow (says a writer in'tlio "Man- j Chester Guardian"). Indeed a- rc.ptfrt of ! tjto Medical Officer of. fhe Loudon County Cosineil proves that Londoners aro living longer, whilst statistics Of old folks indicate that tlio, capital is HVal- i ling Brightoii in ilia lougetity of iii'ahy"" of it's ' inhabitant's. • Last year* for eS-ampic, there' wero 7506 dea'tiis of whb had lived: for -dvef 7,5 , Sears, AinotuVfntiitelifo telyiebas'od m moifern- statistics shows that thfe'- Xton* doner who is 73 is d'Uo to live for' all-' other five or sis'year's,' ahfi that those who itavo reached 85 c-an rely on-aft; average of aiiotber thtco years of life. Tito liion 6f 35, by the': fritv,', lias'- an average future' of 26 yoaf's'.' : bii't'tho woman of the same agid Witt Kvc'fer jiii' ofiher 20 in all tlio agi? groups ■ the -women hold •to existence' witl-i a greatot tenacity. Bat the iib-tablo paint ■ is that Londoners do not in these- days ■ automatically dio Off at the third ge'ip Oration.