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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    (47.) A careful analysis has been made of the data furnished in regard to the mortality amongst widows, and the ratio of re-marriages, from which it appears that of 108 widows who have been on your Fund since the year 1807, three re-entered on account of second widowhood, making, in all, 111 cases. It will be further seen, that of these 108 widows fourteen remarried, and the pension of another ceased at the age of forty-five, from some cause not specified. The results of this analysis are given in Table XIII. preceding, the construction of which will be easily understood by any one giving attention to the first eight Tables of this Report. (48.) The following is a condensed summary of the preceding Table, shewing the ratios of mortality and re-marriages amongst the widows of the Fund. Abstract I. Rates of Mortality and Re-marriages. Experience of tlie Fund itself as in Table XIII. Other Experience. Ages. Number Exposed to Died. (a) 2(«) Remarried. (b) 2(6) Mortality Re- marriages Total Decrements S, Deaths Vit: Stat. 2 Re- marriages Risk. per cent. per cent. Bengal Fund. 17 to 20 8-0 1 1 12-500 12-500 0-065 •548 21 20 ... 25 ... 30 49-5 108-5 3 3 3 3 4 7 2-765 j. 1-898 6-061 2-765 6-061 5 530 } 1-577 3-073 6-685 31 36 ... 35 ... 40 188-5 258-0 1 5 4 9 1 4 8 12 0- 530 1- 938 J 1-344 0- 530 1- 550 1-061 3-488 } 6 676 12 070 16-335 41 ... 45 242-0 2 11 1 13 0-826 1 l-QQQ 0-413 1-240 1 io.i n a 18-319 46 ... 50 194-5 6 17 1 14 3-085 0-514 3-599 20-035 51 ... 55 132-0 1 18 0-758 J 0-889 0-758 l 17-064 56 ... 60 93-0 1 19 1-075 1-075 61 66 ... 65 ... 70 84-0 39-0 0 2 19 21 5-128 j- 1-626 5-128 } 21-654 7] 76 ... 75 ... 80 16-0 5-0 2 23 12-500 J- 9-524 12-500 j- 22-392 81 ... 82 2-0 1 24 50-000 50-000 50-000 23-419 Total... 1420-0 24 14 (49.) The data in the above are of course much too limited to form the basis of a Table by which to regulate your financial operations; still, however limited the data, it is at all times important to know how far the actual results, in the experience of the Fund, fluctuate from any recognised law or standard. A comparison of columns four and eleven, headed with the sign of summation, 2, shews that although in the aggregate the mortality of the widows on the Fund is almost identical with that which would have taken place, according to the ratio of mortality for female lives in England and Wales, as given in Table C, pp. 5-6, “ Contributions to Vital Statis- tics the actual mortality being twenty-four, while the calculated amount, in column eleven, is 23-419 ; still, great fluctuations are observable at particular periods of life, the mortality under age fifty being greater, but after that age much less. This would, however, appear to be an accidental circumstance, due to the limited numbers over which the observations extend ; for if the data in regard to unmarried daughters within the same period of life were included, as is done in Abstract N, following, it will be found that while the actual deaths between ages 16-50 were eighteen, that the calculated number amounted to 18*867. Again,—