The loss of wealth by the loss of health / by John Watts.

  • Watts, John
Date:
[1879?]
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Credit: The loss of wealth by the loss of health / by John Watts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE )SS OF WEALTH BY THE LOSS OF HEALTH. BY JOHN WATTS, Ph.D. ^ calling attention to the money value of health, I am doubtless introducing a novel, but I hope not an unimportant subject, ce I am only trying to add one more reason to those which at ;sent actuate sanitary reformers in their work. The Bible sets down the natural term of a healthy life at from to 80 years, and all experience confirms the reasonableness of : dictum. The last census (1871) shows that there were then Jig 127 persons of 100 years of age and upwards, whilst those ^r the age of 80 years were 124,808, and those over 70 years re 624,587. Adopting 75 as the natural terra of years which iht to be reached, the mean term of the census ought to be 5 years, but the actual mean age in 1871 was 26-4 years, and 2r allowing for the increase of births it was 32-1 years, thus )wing a deficient average of 5 -4 years in the mean age, and the of females exceeded those of males by -5 of a year, [n France the actual mean age in 1866 was 31-5 years, being 5-1 irs more than in England. How much of this difference is e to the lesser fecundity of French women, thus lessening the )portion of the population at the earlier ages, I have not tried to Lke out, as it scarcely comes within the scope of my paper. It is sufficiently clear that the French people live longer than do upon the whole; and those who look from time to time the English tables of mortality will be aware that life is also much iger in some localities than in others. Mn Edwin Chadwick he could so build houses as to secure any rate of mortality
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