The life of John Heysham, M.D. : and his correspondence with Mr. Joshua Milne relative to the Carlisle bills of mortality / edited by Henry Lonsdale.

Date:
1870
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Credit: The life of John Heysham, M.D. : and his correspondence with Mr. Joshua Milne relative to the Carlisle bills of mortality / edited by Henry Lonsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Hence you will see it is of some importance that I should clearly set forth the authority on which the Carlisle Table depends, and show its agreement with the general law of mortality throughout England ; this has been the occasion of most of the trouble I have given you for many months past. You have enabled me to do it to my own satisfaction, and, may I presume to hope, to the satisfaction of the public. JOS. MiLNE. To prove to the reader of these pages the great difference between the Car- lisle Tables of Mortality, which guided Mr. Milne's reply to Heysham's query, and those of Northampton or some other equally erroneous Tables, which guided the Equitable Assurance Office in 1810, the following reply should be perused. It ought to be stated that Heysham's case, as given above, was put to the Equitable, and here is the reply : The present value of to be paid on the extinction of each life for ever in the above lease [the lease between the Cor- poration of Carlisle and Heysham's lives] is two pounds four shillings., (Signed) WiLLIAM MORGAN. Equitable Assurance Office, '^d April i8lo. Printed by R. Clark, Edinburgh.