A contribution to the medical statistics of life assurance with hints on the selection of lives / by John Mann.

  • J. Mann
Date:
1865
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Credit: A contribution to the medical statistics of life assurance with hints on the selection of lives / by John Mann. 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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    Preface. v. sisting of Hints on the Selection of Lives. For these, also, I am largely indebted to my predecessors in this field, whom I have already named; and also to Dr. A. P. Stewart, of the London and Yorkshire Assurance Company, who published some very valuable observations in 1851, which he has kindly placed at my service. I have also to thank my friend and colleague. Dr. E. H. Greenhow, for his experienced advice and aid, I would also refer to an excellent work by Dr. Fleming, of Glasgow, medical adviser to the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Company, containing an inquiry into the causes of death among its members from 1826 to i860. This work is on a different plan from the present. As it is published in a separate form, it is within the reach of those who would study the subject from a somewhat different stand-point. Some of those results which are exceptions to the general rule of the actuary, or which do not enter into his field of thought and calculation, but which are alluded to here as results of Medical Statistics, relate to.— 1. The value of female life at that period of life during which assurances are granted. 2. The variations that belong to particular classes according to their age, divided into different decennial periods,— varying also according to their status, or social position —according to their hereditary predisposition—accord- ing to their habits—and according to their employments. V The laws of Hereditary Disease. 4. The variations and oscillations of mortality in the dif- ferent periods of the age of a Company. 5. The Correlations of Disease. 6. The separate influence of each Disease. Much yet remains to be done. More deductions may be drawn from existing materials; and the materials them-
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