Old age; the results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years : including seventy-four centenarians.

  • Humphry, George Murray, Sir, 1820-1896.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Old age; the results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years : including seventy-four centenarians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    CHAPTEE II. CENTENARIANS. CONCLUSIONS FEOM THE KEPORTS OF THE CONDITIONS, HABITS, FAMILY HISTORY, ETC. OF FIFTY-TWOi CEN- TENARIANS, GIVEN IN RETURNS MADE ON A FORM OF INQUIRY ISSUED BY THE COLLECTIVE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. WITH REMARKS AND ANALYSIS 2. In the publication of this table ^ it is not meant to be implied that each of the fifty-two persons positively at- tained to the age of 100 years. Some no doubt did so; I alnd in eleven (two males and nine females, one of these aged 108, and one 106) the age was confirmed by baptismal certificates or other records. Respecting others, there is necessarily more or less uncertainty; but these may reasonably be assumed to have reached nearly to that age. The name is given in each case ; and the 1 Subsequent additions which are given later have brought the number reported on up to seventy. Fifty-two, however, only were in- cluded in the table. 2 The analysis of the table is given at p. 55. ^ The table will be found in the Supplement to the British Medical