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Show Where People Refuse to Die. ; Probably the healthiest place in tha world is the district of Santa Cruz, in the mountains of Jamaica. Centena- ' rians are as common as skyscrapers ' in New York, and the solitary doctor ekes out an impecunious existence by mending broken legs and attending hypochondriacs. "I've .only nine patients just now,' he told a tourist recently. "Their combined ages amount to 761 years. Not one of them is really ill, but they all fancy they are, and, of course, I don't discourage the delusion. Un-. fortunately, people can't get ill her,; no matter how hard they try. They: can only die of old age or a broken neck. The oUrnate jrf perfect." |