MARRIAGE BENEFITS
LESS RISK OF INSANITY. PROFESSOR’S FINDINGS. (Rec. 7.25 p.m.) London, July 15. Professor Robertson, president of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, lecturing the British Medical Association, declared that insanity was nearly three times as prevalent among single men and women between the ages of 25 and 55 as among a similar number of married persons of the same age. The incidence of insanity among married people was decidedly low and the obvious deduction, therefore, was that the condition of marriage was a most favourable mode of existence for men and women. Men remaining bachelors between 25 and 35 died on the average four years sooner than the marrieds in addition to running three times the risk of becoming insane.
He added that the powers first began to fail between the ages of 45 and 50 when an increased effort was necessary in order to keep abreast of younger competitors. —A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19924, 17 July 1926, Page 7
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