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Show Longest Lived People. A German statistician who made inquiries to find out in which European country people live longest, arrived at the following conclusion : Germany Ger-many with her 5.1.000.000 inhabitants, has only 7 S persons who have passed the age of a hundred, rthile France, with her population of 10, m'h ).( i ), is 213 centenarians. England and Ireland have ! Hi. Scotland 4i. Denmark 2. Belgium ., Sweden iO and norway. wih her 2,300,000, has 23. Switzerland cannot boast of a single one. but Spain counts 410 i among her 15,000,000 population. The' number of i centenarians is astonishing in the Balkan states. ! Servia has 573, Roumania 1.0t and Bulgaria In als j the record with 3S3 one to every hundred inh.sb-itants. inh.sb-itants. j |