LONGER LIFE.
FOR BRITISH PEOPLE. STRIKING FIGURES. Rugby, September 22. Striking figures, indicating the general lengthening of life in Great Britain, are contained in a reportissued to-day by the Government Actuary, Sir Alfred Watson. From statistics based on the 1921 Census, and on deaths recorded in the three years, 1920 to 1922, it is ascertained that in the last twenty years, over seven years have been added to the average life of mankind, while 1 the probability of children dying in their first year has been decreased by 40 per cent. Two and three-quarter, years have been added to the life of the youth of twenty, and three years to the life of a woman of twenty.
The expectation of life of both men and women has increased at every age, except at the age of ninety. Women live longer than men; married women, after the age of thirty-seven, live longer than single women or widows, and the rates of mortality for widows are invariably heavier than those foi single women or wives. The improvement in vitality, which is specially marked in the younger ages, applies to the whole of the Biitish nation.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3696, 27 September 1927, Page 3
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193LONGER LIFE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3696, 27 September 1927, Page 3
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