Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — The Probabilities of Sickness. [ARTICLE]

The Probabilities of Sickness.

Dr. Reginald Southey has recently been delivering a course of valuable lectures on “Individual Hygjepe” in London, and in one he introduced a table of “ Expectation of Sickness,’ which he had prepared, and which is as follows: At twenty years of age, Calculate on four siqk days yearly. At twenty to thirty, five or six days. At forty-five, seven days. At fifty, nine or ten days. At fifty-five, twelve or thirteen days. 3 At sixty, sixteen days. At sixty-five, thirty-one days. At seventy, seventy-four days. Of course this refers to people of average good health, and not to those who may be afflicted with any ineradicable or chronic ailment: ~ The Adjutant-General of the Xrmy states that during the last five fiscal years ending June HO, 1875, there were over 30,000 deserters from the army.