LIFE'S INCREASING SPAN
At a recent meeting of the American Socialogical Society, Dr. Harnell Hart, of Bryn Mawr College, predicted that the avcrag. length of life of human beings born in A.D. 2000 Would be 100 years, reports the "Lancet." Dr. Hart pointed out that tl.e average expectation of life increased from 21 j .ars 'n ISSO to over 50 years in 1910. Since 1850, ho said, the average gain per, de-
cade had been three and two-tenth years, a rate of gain which would be maintained and even accelerated. In A.D. 2000 he thought the span would be lengthening at about the rate of eight years per decade, and therefore the expectation of life at birth ould havo reached about 10. years. This meant that the average person would live to be 104, aud obviously man;.persons must live to be 200 or older in order to maintain such an average.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 14
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