Reports on the Madras Medical Fund / by Francis G.P. Neison.

Date:
1856
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Credit: Reports on the Madras Medical Fund / by Francis G.P. Neison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Abstract W (a). Mortality per cent, among Ages. Difference ' per cent. Married Members. Unmarried Members. 24 to 50 1-843 4-193 + 127-509 51 and upwards 4-754 2-088 — 56-079 24 and upwards, 1 being all ages j 2452 3-484 ( + 42-088 (183.) In the period of life 24-50 it thus appears that the mortality in the unmarried group of members is in excess of that of the married members no less than 127 per cent. This is a very remarkable distinction, and one for which few will be prepared. Again, in the term of life “ fifty-one and upwards,” the mortality of the unmarried group is 56 per cent, less than that in the married group. If these results were peculiar to your own Fund, it might be said that the strange differences found to prevail between the mortality of the two groups were due entirely to the small numbers over which the observations extend. No doubt the fluctuations are partly attributable to that circumstance, but on extending the inquiry into other communities, a similar distinction will be found to exist. For example, about the end of the year 1851, I reported on the state of the “ Royal Army Medical Fund,” and in regard to the mortality of the married and unmarried members, obtained results having precisely the same relation to each other as those observed between the married and unmarried members of your own. I considered the results of sufficient importance to communicate them to the Statistical Society in a paper entitled the “ Mortality of the Medical Profession,” which with some extended data since obtained, will be found in the third edition of “ Contributions to Vital Statistics,” pp. 102-33. The whole of that section will well repay perusal to those interested in the Vital Statistics of the Medical Profession. (184.) The following shews the general results obtained in regard to the mortality among the members of the “ Royal Army Medical Fund,” in the same shape as the condensed results just given in respect to your own Fund. Abstract W(b). Ages. • Mortality per cent, among Difference Married Members. Unmarried Members. per cent. 25 to 54 1-831 2-559 + 39-760 55 and upwards 4-247 1-918 — 54-839 25 and upwards,] being all ages j 2-580 2-504 — 2-946 (185.) It hence appears that both classes of results, your own experience since July 1838, and that of the “ Royal Army Medical Fund ” from its foundation in the year 1816, manifest