Life expectancy in Barnsley is appreciably better than the 59.7 years for men and 61 years for women that we reported. Those figures relate to healthy life expectancy, the age to which babies born this year will typically live in a state of good general health (“Can cannabis oil really ease the pains of a working life?”, 14 July, Focus, page 40).
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