MARRIED LIFE LONGER.
WARNING TO CELIBATES. LONDON, January 13. "Marry if you wish to live long-" is the advice tacitly conveyed by Sir Arthur Newsholrne, formerly Permanent Medical Officer to the Local Government Board, in "The Elements of Vital Statistics." "The question of the effect of sex on mortality is closely related," he says, "to the influence of the inter-relation of the sexes in matrimony. The subject has long interested social statisticians, who are not restrained from fit 8/tistieal study by the perennial joke that married life is not more prolonged than the celibate, but that it seems longer." ' Sir Art!rar gives a table showing a much longer life period for all ages among married men than among single men and widowers. He declares that various factors contribute to the longevity of married men. "As a rule," he says, "a married man is in a more secure social position than the unmarried one, and has, therefore, a better economic and healthier environment."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17984, 30 January 1924, Page 5
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