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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    of Old People, and on Aged Persons, by myself; On the Connection of Disease with Habits of Intemperance, and on the Geographical Distribution of Certain Diseases in the British Islands (with Maps), by Dr Isambard Owen; and On the Causes of Death among Gouty Men, by Dr Edward Casey. The labour attendant upon the work, it need scarcely be said, has been great, and the expense, the funds for defraying which have been liberally supplied by the Association, has been considerable. The onerous office of Secretary to the Committee was first held by Dr Mahomed. At his death, when a promising career was cut short by one of those contagious attacks from which the public erroneously imagines that medical men enjoy a sort of charmed exemption, Dr Herringham and, subsequently, Dr Isambard Owen were good enough to undertake the work; and it is to the energy, good judgment and ability of these gentlemen that the success of the movement has been mainly due. The following Inquiry-Paper was issued concerning the general condition, habits, and circumstances, past and present, and the Family History of Persons who had attained or passed the Age of Eighty Years ; and directions were given as to the manner in which the replies should be made. CONDITION AT THE PRESENT TIME. \ Name or Initials. Age. Male or female. Single, married, widowed. Residence. Occupation. Circumstances.—Affluent, comfortable, poor.