MARRIED WOMEN LIVE LONGER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 December 1927, Page 17

MARRIED WOMEN LIVE LONGER

SPINSTERS AT DISADVANTAGE. BRITISH LIFE TABLES. Married women live longer Italian single women, according to tlie Government actuary, Sir Alfred \V. Watson. In a report on life tables based on Mu' population as returned in the 19” 1 census, and on the average number ot deaths recorded in the three years 1920-22 rates of mortality for single, married and widowed women show that the 'advantage lies with the married woman. At the youngest ages for which comparison was possible, the lightest rates were those for single women. Bates, for single and married women differed but .slightly .between the ages 21 to 37. _ Thereafter the rates for married women were usually lower than those of single women for widows, while rates for widows were invariably higher than those for single women or wives. In all areas the difference between the death-rate of the county boroughs and that of the rural districts was greater among males than among females. This appeared to. he attributable not to the greater strain or occupational conditions as a fleeting male lives in the county boroughs, but to the relatively favourable mortality experience of the male population in the rural areas. The following table shows the expec--1 ration of life in years for 1921:

The highest death-rates occurred in the county boroughs of Northumberland and Durham, and the lowest in the rutial districts of the eastern counties. The probability of a child dying within the first to i years: o,f its lire in the rural , districts, of the eastern counties was only about halt of that iu the county boroughs of Northumberland and Durham.

The probability of a child dying in its first year has decreased by about ■lO per cent, during the fifteen years 1906-21.

Age Males. Females 0 59.58 10 54.64 ... 20 .... 45.78 ... 48.73 00 .... 37.40 ... ...... 40.2(3 40 .... 29.19 ... 31.86 50 .... 21.36 ... 23.69 60 .... 14.36 ... 16.22 70 9.95 80 .... 4.93 ... 90 9 99 3.13