PHYSICAL EXERCISE
LIMITATIONS OF AGE THE PERIL OF EXCESS LONDON, Sept. 17. “ Middle-aged persons must accept the fact that blood vessels, with advancing years, become increasingly less resilient if they would avoid sudden death while playing games,” says the Daily Mail, commenting on the deaths of Sir Gilbert Clayton, High Commissioner of Irak, and Sir John Gatti, former chairman of the London CountyCouncil, who died yesterday while ing‘‘lt is not essential or advisable to dispense with exercise completely, but the stresses and strains which the human material can stand must be discovered as an architect finds out whether a building is safe. This is only possible by means of periodic medical examinations. “Elderly persons must realise their diminishing capacity for physical exertion, and grade their sports on a descending scale. ’ ’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 8
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130PHYSICAL EXERCISE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 8
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