HEALTHY JOBS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 5

HEALTHY JOBS

CLERGYMEN LIVE LONGEST. What is the healthiest job? • The Registrar-general of Great Britain is nowcompiling statistics which may help to solve the question. Mr F. W. Fitgeman, the retiring Assistant-controller of the Post Office Stores Department, has pointed out that postmen rarely grow fat, as walking is a wonderful exercise, and it is the best remedy for keeping down superfluous weight. An official of the Homo Office told a Daily Mail reporter that there is no doubt that policemen are one of the healthiest bodies of men in the country. “But it is essential,” he added, “to bear in mind that policemen are drawn from among the fittest men in the country. It is very likely, of course, that walking and being hardened by ex-posure to all weathers do contribute very largely to a policeman’s continued fitness, but he is required to be perfetcly fit in the first place.” Yet a search among mortality statistics at Somerset House revealed the fact that not postmen nor policemen can claim to have the healthiest job. It is clergymen who head the bill of health. They live longer than any other class of workers, and they are run very close by gamekeepers, printers, gardeners, and makers oi candles and glue.