A German doctor has compiled some statistics which serve to show that matrimony is conducive to long life. Of 200 persons who reached the age of 40, 125 were married and 75 single. At 60 the proportions were 48 to 22 ; at 70, 27 to 11 ; and at 90, nine to three. Among 50 centenarians not one bachelor or spinster could be found, nor, for the matter of that, one married couple, all these venerable individuals beiDg widows or widowers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 884, 7 May 1903, Page 2
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80Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 884, 7 May 1903, Page 2
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