Mines and health

Welsh health lecturer: "The two most debilitating diseases in Wales are silicosis and syphilis. Silicosis you get by going down a shaft

An undertaker at a funeral was talking to a very old man from the next village.

"Tell me," he said, "how old are you now?"

"I shall be eighty-nine on my next birthday", was the reply.

"Really?", said the undertaker, "it's hardly worth your going home, is it?"