Health for the million : including hints on the physical training of youth, and the treatment of invalids and old age, with observations on unhealthy employments / by the author of How to make home happy, The accidents of life, etc., etc.

Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health for the million : including hints on the physical training of youth, and the treatment of invalids and old age, with observations on unhealthy employments / by the author of How to make home happy, The accidents of life, etc., etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    23 printing-offices in Paiis, the age of the men was respectively as follows :— No. VXABS. No. Years. 1 from 18 to 00 13 from 40 to 50 2 ft 15 1) 50 14 it 30 „ 00 S V 12 fi 75 15 fi 10 „ 70 4 n 18 t) 55 16 a 25 „ 50 5 18 if 50 17 a 20 „ 02 6 9) 18 if 50 18 »i 20 „ 60 7 18 if 00 1!) if 17 „ 50 S 20 50 20 20 „ 4.5 9 If 20 a 50 21 a 18 6.5 10 If 18 fi 40 , 22 a 15 70 11 if 20 if 56 23 tt 17 „ 60 12 )) 20 fi 40 Moreover, M. Chevallier was informed by a work- man that some years ago there was one printing-house in which 40 men were employed, 25 of whom were between 50 and 70 years, so that it was nicknamed the “ Greybeard Printing-house.” The names were given of 17 printers then working in Paris, 14 of whom were 70 years old, one 68, one 62, and one 80. A man named Dubois worked for Didot, junior, until 86 years old, when he died; and another worked until 83 or 84 years old. The tables of mortality of the hospitals in 1831 enumerate 25 printers who died between 55 and 78 years. In the hospital—of the old, four died at the ages of 69, 78, 64, and 75. Accordi}ig to Dr. Thompson, of the causes, as in- ducing or aggravating consumption, some are under our own control. That source of many plagues, contami- nated air, is not essential to our apartments or work- shops. Open fireplaces, with Arnott’s ventilators of sufficient dimensions, or even a zinc pipe communicating with the chimney, would, to a great degree, correct the evil, and some hundreds of lives might probably, by a few such simple precautions, be annually saved to this metropolis. In addition to the benefit of free exercise in the open air, much good would accrue from attention to the power with which the will is endowed over the respira-