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Longevity of paupers.

--The London Times publishes a communication by which it appears that there are at present in the Ratcliff and Wrapping workhouses of the Stepney Union, sixty inmates whose collective ages amount to 5,538 years, giving an average of 80 years for each inmate, and 292 persons in the above-named workhouse of the Stepney Union whose average ages are 70 years.

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