The relation of cancer to life assurance : a paper read at the Life Assurance Medical Officers' Association, May 5th, 1897, with a discussion / by Joseph Frank Payne.

  • Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.
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[1897]
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Credit: The relation of cancer to life assurance : a paper read at the Life Assurance Medical Officers' Association, May 5th, 1897, with a discussion / by Joseph Frank Payne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E Life Assurance Medical Officers’ Association. A General Meeting of the Association was held on Wednesday, May 5th, 1897, at the Rooms of the Medical Society of London, Chandos Street, the President, Sir Richard Douglas-Powell, Bart., M.D., in the Chair. A Discussion was opened upon I “THE RELATION OF CANCER TO LIFE ASSURANCE,” *y JOSEPH FRANK PAYNE, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, and to the Economic Assurance Society. The question of Cancer in relation to Life Assurance seems worthy of investigation on account of the large mortality caused by lis disease, and also because it has received on the whole less Ittention than other diseases which are regarded as especially [angerous in relation to Life Assurance. In England and Wales, for the ten years 1881-90, the total |eaths from Cancer were 161,920, giving a rate of 589 per lillion. The deaths from Phthisis in the same period were *3,9G8, giving a rate of 1724 per million. The mortality pom Cancer at all ages was thus rather more than one-tliird of pat from Phthisis. If we take deaths over 25 years old, which fone are of interest for Life Assurance purposes, we find the imbers were 159,122 for Cancer, and 329,563 for Phthisis; that I, the former disease was about one-half as fatal as the latter. |aking deaths above 35 we find the numbers were 153,901 and 1,055, Cancer giving very nearly three-fourths the mortality of ithisis. Above 45 Cancer turns the scale, causing 135,58G