Most interesting. Does this have more to do with the progress of Science in different parts of the city, the availability of health-care (or the exclusion from it of certain segments of the population) or economic disparity? Or a combination of one or more of the above causes? Just curious... FN
2009/12/6 Bosco D <[email protected]>: > -----Original Message----- > From: Santosh Helekar > >> Hundred years ago the life expectancy of a human being in India was 25 years. >> In 1947 .....Indians .....could only expect to live for 36 years. >> In 1961 .....Indian citizen in Goa ..... could survive beyond 42 years of age >> Today, any toddler in India can hope to live on an average for 70 years > > > RESPONSE: If you live(d) in Mumbai (formerly Bombay / Bombaim), where do/did > you > live? > > QTE > If you reside in Nana Chowk or Marine Lines, you can expect to live for about > 20 > years more than your friend in Chembur (E), 13 years more than the average > Byculla > or Matunga resident, 10 years more than someone living in Santa Cruz and > about seven > more years than the average person staying in Dadar.... > > TOI had earlier reported a study which had found that the average Mumbaikar > was > likely to die at least seven years before other Indians and about 12 years > before > people living in the rest of Maharashtra. -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 ANOTHER GOA: http://tiny.cc/anothergoa Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fredericknoronha Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism
