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Remarks upon the present state of Information relating to the Laws of Sickness and Mortality, as exemplified in the Tables of Contributions, &c. used by Friendly Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Extract

One of the most important problems of social statistics, after the questions of food and labour, is to determine the ratio of mortality and sickness.

The general mortality having been a subject of investigation during a long period, and the collection of facts and deductions therefrom being essential to the operations of the various respectable and long-established Assurance Companies, has at length been determined with sufficient exactness.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1852

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