AGE AVERAGES AT DEATH
AH hough attention is frequently drawn nowadays to the remarkable longevity of individuals, yet the ancient average of the Psalmist's “three score years ami ten ” still seems t<> exist as the most constant limit of human life. A writer in ‘ Tho Times ’ who, during Forty weeks of last year, was interested enough in the subject to keep a record of the ages of persons whose deaths appeared in ‘The Times’ obituary fmlnmns, remarks, as a result of his findings, that “It is astonishing how .true me average age varies. For forty weeks recorded it works out at seventy years. The highest figure for any one week was 72.2, and the lowest sixty-live years.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 1
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117AGE AVERAGES AT DEATH Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 1
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