THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3125, 27 February 1909, Page 4

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

According to statistics, London is a healthier place to live in than any laree centre of population in Europe or America. It is, in fact, only surpassed, says "The Globe" (London), by some of those new cities in Australia and Nuw Zealand in which a peculiarly vigorous stock of young settlers, living under excellent conditions, contrive to cheat Nature of the supreme penalty till well after the three-score and ten years the Psalmist has declared to be the limit of life. It is not difficult to discover the cause for the excellent health enjoyed by London. The population is constantly, as is that of the colonies, fed by vigorous young blood from the country. The statistics gain a small at the other end of life, since old folks often leave the metropolis to spend their last years in the home of their youth. These two causes, however, are of relatively small importance when compared with the perfect drainage system, the strict regulations which make London one ot the safest seaports in the world, and the general care by sanitary officers —to whom the better-educated now lend willing assistance—of the laws of hygiene.