JOKE EXPLODED

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 11

JOKE EXPLODED

MARRIED LUTE LONGER. “Many if you wish to live long,” is the advice tacitly convoyed by Sir Arthur Newsholme, formerly Permanent Medical Officer to the Local Government Board, in ‘‘The Elements of Vital Statistics.” ‘‘The question of the effect of »ex on mortality is closely related,” he ‘‘to the influence of the interrelation of the sexes in matrimony. The

subject has long interested social statisticians, who are not restrained from statistical study by the perennial joke that married life is not moro prolonged than the oelibate, hut that it seems longer.” Sir Arthur gives a table showing a much longer life period for all ages among married men than among single men aud widowers. He declares that various factors contribute to the longevity of married men. ‘‘As a rule,” lie says, “a married man is in a more secure social position than the unmarried one 4 and has A t&iero-.

foTe, a better economic and healthiet environment.”