An investigation into the effects of family and personal history upon the rates of mortality experienced in various classes of life assurance risks : with special reference to tuberculosis / by Edward A. Rusher and Charles William Kenchington.

  • Rusher, Edward A.
Date:
1913
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Credit: An investigation into the effects of family and personal history upon the rates of mortality experienced in various classes of life assurance risks : with special reference to tuberculosis / by Edward A. Rusher and Charles William Kenchington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    c An investigation into the effects of Family and Personal History upon the rates of mortality experienced in various classes of Life Assurance risks, with special reference to Tuberculosis. By Edward A. Rusher, F.I.A., Assistant Actuary of the Prudential Assurance Company, Limited, and Charles William Kenchington, F.I.A., of the Prudential Assurance Company, Limited. [Read before the Institute, 28 April 1913.] INDEX. TAGE Introduction ... ... ... 1 Table of Classification 4 Table of Causes of Death ... 7 Summary of Data ... ... 8 Standard of Comparison ... 12 Family History of Tubercidosis : Combined Experience ... 14 Lineals Lineals plus Collaterals > 22 Collaterals ... ... ) Individual Sub-Groups... 32 General Summary ... 37 Causes of Death 45 Family History of non-Tuber- culous Pulmonary Disease 38 PAGE Indefinite Family History ... 42 Family History of Tuberculosis, combined with Personal Blemish ... ... ... 42 Tuberculosis and the Medical Profession ... ... ... 52 Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease 58 Medical aspect of Heart Disease 67 Obesity 68 Other Personal Blemishes ... 72 Formerly Intemperate 70 Gout 78 Conclusion ... ... ... 79 Aggregate Tables—(A ppendix) 80 introduction vestigation into the effects of family and personal history upon assurance risks has long been desired by Actuaries, but hitherto in this country the material at their disposal has not been sufficient in volume to admit of analytical treatment. The only attempt the Institute as a body has made to deal with this subject is in the old Institute experience, which contains the records of 11,146 rated-up lives, in which all kinds of risks are combined without any attempt at classification. A