WHERE LIFE IS LONGEST.
Which is. the healthiest pl-ace__in the world? If the index is ‘the death-rate. as it presumably must be, we have to go to the unlikely neigh‘nourhoo<l of the Antarctic to find Colonial report “’f‘rom the Fa.lkl:lnd Islands, the death-I'a.le for 1917 and 1918 was 5.31 per fllousu.nCl. During ten years the death-I‘ate in England and \Vales did not drop below 13.3, and was as high as 17.6.
Yet the climate of the Falkland Islands is vigorous, and the country is more bleak and bar‘-.'en than the Shetlauds. High winds blow almost constantly, but théfé is no séarcity of sunshine. To these 11z1ture’s great disllnfcctants, is probably ‘flue the longevity of the sparse population.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 13 May 1920, Page 6
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117WHERE LIFE IS LONGEST. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 13 May 1920, Page 6
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