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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2041, 24 August 1906, Page 1

A patient was recently udmitted into the Northern Wuiruu Hospital with his heart under his right armpit. An eminent xtiiiisl ician anil food expert has discovered that every \ear the people, of London alone make a little present of some AMUO,UUU to their bakers, £:!ot>,Uoo to their milkmen, and i::iSO,QOO at least to thuir butchers, through short weight or measure being given. The lifting power of a youth of 17 years is 2S»JIh; in his 2Uti> year, it, is ;i2Ull>, and in his ;iOth and olst, years it reaches its maiiuitmi, ;i(isUi. At the end of the .'Slst year the strength begins to decline, very slowly at first. By the luth year it has decreased 81b, and this diminution continues at a slightly increasing rate until the suth year is reached, when till! figure is MOIb. After this period the strength fails more and more rapidly until the weakness of old age is reached.