A contribution to the medical statistics of life assurance with hints on the selection of lives / by John Mann.

  • Mann, John.
Date:
1865
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Credit: A contribution to the medical statistics of life assurance with hints on the selection of lives / by John Mann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of 50. The details are as follows, namely:—One between 10 and 30; four between 30 and 40; nine between 40 and 50; twenty-one between 50 and 60; seventeen between 60 and 70; twelve between 70 and 80 ; three after 80. In the Standard forty-one cases occurred in the first period of five years (1845-50), and forty-five in the second (1850-1855). Dr. Christison observes that this is a slight increase. Cases of Paralysis are in the lists of the Standard, included under this head. Dr. Burt returns one hundred and five cases of death under the head of Apoplexy in 37 years of the North British (1823-60). Of these, the average duration was 10 years and 2 months. The average expectation 24 years. The per centage on total mor- tality 8.05 3. Paralysis. Six cases of death ascribed to this 28 cause occur in the list of the British Empire. ^^''^^y'^'^ One between 10 and 20; one between 30 and 40; two between 40 and 50; two between 60 and 70. The case of death at 17 was that of a medi- cal apprentice, whose parents were living at the ages of 41 and 40. In this case the disease commenced as a consequence of suppuration in the internal ear, which extended itself inwards. Medical attendance continued for 3 months and 8 days. The case of death at 39 was that of a shoemaker, who lived a depraved and intemperate life, and became insane soon after acceptance. Of his mother we have no account. His father died at 49 of Ossification of the Heart. His sister was subject to Epilepsy. The death at 40 was that of a female; the illness lasted 53 days, and the disease is said to have been spinal.