In 1843, the British statistician William Farr when compared life expectancies in 3 aspects of England: rural Surrey, metropolitan London and industrial Liverpool. Farr found that folks in Surrey were making the most of life expectancies near 50, a major improvement in excess of the long ceiling in the mid-30s. https://thetopsdirectory.com/listings12675203/little-known-facts-about-culture-of-the-united-states