On the mortality among publicans and other persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors : being the experience of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society, 1826-76 / [by John Stott].
- Stott, John
- Date:
- [1876]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the mortality among publicans and other persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors : being the experience of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society, 1826-76 / [by John Stott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![[Reprinted from the Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine.] On the Mortality among Innkeepers, PiLblicans, and other Persons engaged iwthe Sale of Intoxicat- ing Liqttors—being the Experieitce of the Scottish Amicable Life Assttrance Society dtcring Fifty Years, 1826-1876. By John Stott, KS.S, &c., Manager of the Society. The influence of Occupation upon health and longevity is, I think, a subject deserving of even more attention than has hitherto been given to it by the Actuarial and Medical Professions. As the benefits conferred by Life Assurance are now almost universally recognised, they are being taken advantage of by classes of the community which, until the last few years, did not seem fully to appreciate them. It is, therefore, of no little consequence to have, as far as possible, a clear understanding of the relative risks attaching to different occupations and to the various branches of industry. The Registrar-General, in his Fourteenth Annual Report, gave a Table showing the mortality per cent, in twelve distinctly defined Occupations, occurring in the year 1851. For the sake of reference it is here inserted :—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21468618_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
