CLERGYMEN LIVE LONGEST

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 6

CLERGYMEN LIVE LONGEST

WHAT I-S THE- HEALTHIEST OCCUPATION ? What is the healthiest occupation of man? Th)a British Registrar-General is now compiling statistics which may help to solve the question. .Mr F. W. Fugenian, the retiring Assistant -Coißflolkir (of the British Post Office -Stores Department, has pointed out that postmen rarely grow fat, as -walking is a wonderful exercise, and it is itihe best remedy for keeping down superfluous weight. 'An official of -tWa Home. Office said that there is no doubt that policemen a-re one -of the healthiest .bodies of men in 'toe country. “But lit is essential,” he added, “to bear in mind 'that policemen aire drawn from among the fittest men in the land, lit; 'is veiry '.likely, of course, that walking and being hardened by exposure to all weathers do contribute very largely to a pioLic'eman’s -continued fitness, but he is required to be perfectly -flit, in the 'first place.” Yet a search among mortality statistics at Somerset House revealed -the fact that not p.ostmen o-r policemen can claim to have the healthiest jobs, ft is clergymen who head the bill of hea'l'Mi. They five longer than any other class of workers, and they are run very close by gamekeepers, printers, gardeners, and makers iof candles and glue.