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Show WOMAN'S ADVANTAGE IN LIFE British Physicians of Prominence Qlve Some Figures That Explain Disparity Between the Sexes. Though doctors have long realized that, thanks to A bottor knowledge of sanitation and personal hygteno, people are living longer than formerly, the much greater relative longevity of women ns shown In the recently published Ilrltlsh national debt office's report on the mortnltty of government life annuitants has como as u genoral surprise. In a summary of these Agues It wns shown that the expectation of life of a woman of fifty Is now moro than a year greater than It wns In 1876, while that of a man of the same ago Is only three months greater Discussing the reasons of our Increasing In-creasing longevity ond in particular woman's stronger hold on life, phyal clans at St Bartholomew's hospital advanced widely different theories. "The essential cause of death," ono stated, "Is a wearing out from overwork over-work of our brnln cells Women may be Just ns brainy ns men, but they do not work their brain cells ns vigorously vigor-ously or as continuously as do their male relatives. If they did there would not be so great n disparity In the length of life of the two sexes." Another consultant puts down woman's wo-man's greater expectation of life to tho moro sheltered existence she leads, and tho lnck of tho physically depressing depress-ing competition which Is part of nearly near-ly every man's life. "A woman may have hard work to do," ho oxplnliiod, "but except for tho few who work In offices or who follow Drofosstons. thov work In their own homos, and at a pace they set for themselves. Tho home Is also, as a rule, vastly moro airy, sunny and generally more wholo-some wholo-some than Is her husband's shop or office." |