CHEAP FOOD AND LONGEVITY.
At the Brighton Health Congress, recently held, Dr 0. R. Drysdale read a paper. “ On the Importance of Cheap Food to Longevity.” He said that at the census of New Zealand it was lately found that the death-rate was as low as Hi per 1000 per annum, or not quite one-half that of London—23 per 1000 —or about half the death-rate of England and Wales. The real cause of the low death-rate of New Zealand was not climate, for the richer classes in England had just as low a death-rate, per 1000, but it was that the inhabitants of New Zealand were as a community sd much better fed than the inhabitants of the British Isles were,; the latter population pressing so severely upon the food supplies. Mr A. F. Halcombe followed with an address “On New Zealand as a Source of Food Supply to Great Britain.”
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Patea Mail, 24 February 1882, Page 3
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