Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1893, or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the Year 1892
The special attention of some readers, and may probably do so this year, as the average age at time of death has been unusually high. The attempt has sometimes been made to form deductions from these statistics, as though they were entirely reliable. It seems Well to state that, as given, they should be accepted as approximately, but not absolutely, correct, inasmuch as though the list of names in the Obituary is obtained from official returns from all the Monthly Meetings, it is almost always found, after publication, to be more or less incomplete. The average age at death, also, as given In the table, is probably always some months below the reality, because the age stated in each case is usually that at the last birthday, and it is from - these, taken collectively, that the average is obtained. When this allow. Ance is made it is somewhat remarkable that, though the eleven infants who died under one year old are included, the average age at death Should be so high as sixty-two years. W robinson.
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