The woman preserved all her
mental faculties to the last, but her body became attenuated to
an extraordinary degree, and her skin was like parchment."
In the last ten years the St. James' Gazette has kept track of
378 centenarians, of whom 143 were men and 235 were women. A
writer to the Strand Magazine tells of 14 centenarians living in
Great Britain within the last half-dozen years.
It may be interesting to review the statistics of Haller, who has
collected the greatest number of instances of extreme longevity.
He found:--
1000 persons who lived from 100 to 110
15 persons who lived from 130 to 140
60 " " " " 110 to 120
6 " " " " 140 to 150
29 " " " " 120 to 130
1 person " " " to 169
Effect of Class-Influences, Occupation, etc.--Unfortunately for
the sake of authenticity, all the instances of extreme age in
this country have been from persons in the lower walks of life or
from obscure parts of the country, where little else than hearsay
could be procured to verify them. It must also be said that it is
only among people of this class that we can expect to find
parallels of the instances of extreme longevity of former times.
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