REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.
Press Association. NEYV PLYMOUTH, Sopt. 16. That tho caro bestowed on those indigent aged who seek rofugo ill Stato institutions is not such as militates against longevity would seem to be. borne out to a certain extent by tho announcement of deaths. At thoOld People’s Home, tlioro died on Saturday night an old veteran, Richard Chambers, aged 93. 110 arrived in Sydney witfj tho 28th Regiment 67 years ago, and hnd boon in this oolony about 50 years. In his prime ho was a noted pugilist, and ablo to road without glasses the daily nowspapors up to a week before his death. Today an old woman named Omnski, of Polish extraction, died in tho institution, of which she had been an inmate for sovonteon years, aged 97} years. There remain close on twenty inmates over 70 years of ago, of whom seven are between 76 and 80. four between 87 and S 9, and ono old woman of 93. Tho lattor is in remarkably brisk health.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2187, 17 September 1907, Page 3
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168REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2187, 17 September 1907, Page 3
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