Phthisis in relation to life assurance : read before the Hunterian Society, Wednesday, 26 October 1892 / by Thos. Glover Lyon.

  • Lyon, Thomas Glover.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: Phthisis in relation to life assurance : read before the Hunterian Society, Wednesday, 26 October 1892 / by Thos. Glover Lyon. 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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    [Read before the Hunterian Society, Wednesday, 26 October 1892.] PHTHISIS IN RELATION TO LIFE ASSURANCE. BY THOS. GLOVER LYON, M.A., M.D., ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN VICTORIA PARK HOSPITAL FOR CHEST DISEASES; MEDICAL OFFICER TO THE MUTUAL LIFE OFFICE ; FORMERLY MATHEMATICAL SCHOLAR EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. ThE following remarks are the outcome of an enquiry into the mortality experience of the Mutual Life Office, amongst such of its members who at entry gave a family history of consumption and of those whose mothers had died in childbirth. In placing the results of this enquiry before the Institute of Actuaries, in February last, Mr. Manly, the actuary of the Mutual, was careful to point out that the paucity of his figures prevented any definite conclusions being arrived at from them, and several speakers expressed a hope that more material might be collected from other offices, so that the points in question might be finally settled. The Institute of Actuaries was not, of course, the place to discuss the medical side of the enquiry, but some criticisms and suggestions in relation to the paper were made by the medical officers present. It seemed, therefore, advisable to bring the matter before a medical society, so that the method of enquiry adopted might be fully discussed from its medical aspect, and so receive the sanction of medical experts and, perhaps, undergo some modification in accordance with the opinion of the meeting. It was hoped also that a paper upon the subject under consideration might so far interest those present as to induce them to join in the completion of the investigation.