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Show English Women Live Longer Than American Statistics show that English women live longer on the average than American Amer-ican women. English men and American Ameri-can men have about the same ex pectalion of life. Itollo liriten. statistician ol the United Slates public health service tlnds thai the expectation of life which decreases gradually the older the person. per-son. Is higher for English women than for American women nl average ng between ten and eighty, years. The difference between the two countries in this respect ranges from about four years In young womanhood woman-hood to less than one year nt the age of eighty. This means thai the Englishwoman of twenty may expect to live to he sixty-nine, while her American sister may expect to reach an age of onh sixty-four or sixty-five. No attempt Is made by the puhli( health service to explain why this difference In longevity exists between tlie female populations and not between be-tween the males. |