Glasgow fact of the day

For 1998-2002, male life expectancy in the Calton district of Glasgow was fifty-four.

For those same years, male life expectancy in the well-off district of Lenzie, Glasgow was eighty-two, a rather large gap.

For purposes of contrast, by the way, at that time average life expectancy for men in India was sixty-two, eight years longer than for Calton.

That is all from Michael Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World, pp.24-25.