| Show i I Members of or the Society of ot Friends Friend are arc said sall to enjoy unusual longevity A correspondent of ot the hit London Times re remarks remarks marks on thin this subject During the tho year ending In 1900 there thero were reported tho the deaths of ot mem atom members hers bers of the thie Society of ot Friends l In Great Britain and Ireland The Tha proportions Vero JV males and females The average age use nt at death was a n little over oer years and aad seven months A table complied compiled from tho the returns shows hows that lint there Is ts a very ery limited mortality ot or children and that It is 19 chiefly In this respect that hilt t tho the of or the So Society Society clety of or Friends differs front from that of ot the lbs general genera population Only fourteen deaths out of or the 29 were reported as ns of ot children under live five years of ot age ngo between live five years and twenty years yeara the tho lie number was Waa nine between twenty tent and thirty years the deaths were wele sixteen the same sante number was that of tho the between thirty and forty fort years From forty to o fifty there thero deaths and tom from torn six sixty sixty sixt ty t to seventy there were vere deaths Front From seventy to eighty the number was cven and from eighty el to ninety There Thera were cre eight deaths of ot Friends between ninety and ono one hundred years ot of age arid and there were two deaths of at persons n over Oler one hundred One Ono of ot the tho latter died nt at Croydon In III her one oae hundred and first year eur and Iho other oilier had hind passed one hundred rind one years ot of age |
