LONGER LIFE
According to Dr. O. H. Howe, the world's statistics have revealed a steady lengthening- in the span of human lives for 350 years, with a present rate of increase greater than ever before. Records for Geneva show an increase in the average age for all deaths from 21.2 years in the sixteenth century to 39.7 years in the nineteenth. In Europe "the increase per century is about 17 years, and in Prussia, the land of medical discovery and its application, about 27 years. In India, which has neglected medical science, the life span has remained stationary at about 25 years. Continued study of disease germs, of which the number has increased in 25 years from only 2 to between 20 and 30 now known, will further lengthen life. Modern conditions, however, partially counteract the beneficient works of
medicine.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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140LONGER LIFE Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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