GET MARRIED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 9

GET MARRIED

AND LIVE LONGER BRITISH LIFE STATISTICS. MARRIED WOMEN SURVIVE SPINSTERS. London, Oct. 27. Married women live longer than single women, according to the government actuary, Sir Alfred W. Watson. In a report on life tables based on the population as returned in the 1921 census, and on the average number of deaths recorded in the three years 1920-22 rates of mortality for single, married and widowed women show that the advantage lies with the married woman. At the youngest ages for which comparison was possible, the lightest rates were those for single women. Rates for single and married women differed but slightly between the ages 24 to 31. Thereafter the rates for married women were usually lower than those of single women or widows, while rates for widows were invariably higher than those for single women or wives. In all areas the difference between the death-rate of the county boroughs and that of the rural districts was greater among males than among females. This appeared to be attributable not to the greater strain of occupational conditions as affecting male lives in the county boroughs, but to the relatively favourable mortality experience of the male population in the rural areas. The highest death-rates occurred in the county boroughs of Northumberland and Durham, and the lowest in the rural districts of the eastern counties. The probability of a child dying within the first ten years of its life in the rural districts of the eastern counties was only about half of that in the county boroughs of Northumberland and Durham The probability of n child dying in its first year has decreased by about •10 per cent, during the fifteen year.. 1906-21.