The causes of death among the assured in the Scottish Widow's Fund and Life Assurance Society from 1874 to 1894 inclusive / [Claud Muirhead].

  • Muirhead, Claud.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The causes of death among the assured in the Scottish Widow's Fund and Life Assurance Society from 1874 to 1894 inclusive / [Claud Muirhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lumself previously sutferod from Rheumatic Fever. <)iie case was complicated with iMeuingitis, and the other with Heart iiflection. Two Irishmen died of the di.sease. In neither case was there any family history of the disease, but one of them had j)reviously sulfered fiom it. Hotli cases were attended with Heart complication. lSSl-87.—Twenty-one deaths were due to this cause. Of these, iifteen were Englishmen, three were Scotchmen, and three were Irishmen, and in none of the cases was there any family history of Kheuniatism. Of tlie Englishmen, four had suffered from Eheumatism before Assurance, and two of them were rated up live and seven years respectively on that account. Their ages at death were 48 and 49, and they lell short of their expectation by 15 and 19 years. One Scotchman and two Irishmen had suHered from the disease before they became members. In six cases the attack of Kheumatic Fever winch ended fatally was complicated with affection of the Heart, and in two with ^Meningitis, (lout. Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Dropsy were the complications in other four cases. IS88-04- — Fifteen members died of this painful affection, eleven of whom were English, two Scotch, and two Irish. They all died within twenty-eight days of being attacked, most of them after a fortniglit’s illness, proving the acuteness of the disease. Their average age at death was 43, and, as might be anticipated, all of them fell short of their expectation. Of the eleven Englishmen, five had sulfered from the di.sease before they were admitted members of the Society. One of these five, who had passed tlirough two slight attacks of Eheumatism and Epileptic seizure, the result of the disease, was surcharged five years when he joined the Society at the age of 26. At the age of 42 he had another Pheumatic attack, with Epilepsy, in which he died. Another of them was surcharged four years on entry at the age of 33, because he had passed through two attacks of the disease at 20 and 26 ; and at age 45 was accepted on a fresh proposal at ordinary rates. He died, aged 48, of Eheumatic Fever, complicated with Ulcerative Endocarditis and Embolism, after twenty-eight days’ illness. Another, who had suffered from the disease at 14 years of age, and whose brother had died at age 29 of Heart Disease secondary to Kheumatic Fever, joined tlit Society at age 38, and died, 9 years afterwards, of this disease complicated with Meningitis, after nine days' illness. Another, who died at the age of 56 of this disease complicated with Meningitis, after sixteen days’ suffering, was charged three years extra on account of family history of Lung troubles. There was no family or personal history of Kheumatism. Another, in whose family there was no history of Kheuniatism, and whose peraonal history was ec|ually free from any record of this disease, died, at the age of 38, of Hy])erpyrexia and Failure of the Heart as com- plications of Kheumatic Fever, after his Policy had endured eight years. None of the Scotch or Irish cases had any family history of Kheumatism, but one of the Irishmen had undergone six attacks, the last one occurring six years previous to his proposal. He was accepted with an addition of five years to his age, which was 35, and died five years afterwards of Kheumatic lever, complicated with Gout and Hyperpyrexia.