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IV. COMPARISONS WITH OTHEH. TABLES OF MORTALITY.

In comparing the results at which we have arrived with those

of other tables, it must be borne in mind that these are original

observations, from which the peculiar features of the tables have

not been got rid of by any process of graduation. It might be

interesting to examine them in connection with the experience of

particular companies, some of which have been printed in a form

which would allow of the data being put together in the same

groups of ages. The Equitable experience by Mr. Arthur Morgan,

that of the Amicable by Mr. Galloway, of the Scottisli Amicable

by Mr. Spens, and the ” Experience of the 17 Offices ” might be re-

arranged into the same groups of ages and years of assurance as in

the present tables. But when so subdivided the observations

would be too few in number in the separate groups of ages to allow

of any definite conclusions being drawn from them, though the

whole might be re-classified and compared in larger groups if it
were thought desirable to pursue the comparisons. Other tables of
original experience, such as that of the Eagle by Mr. Jellicoe, of
the Economic by Mr. Downes, of the Metropolitan, &c., might be
compared with the present totals at each age. All the tables
however, should be examined in reference to the mode in which the
facts were collected and arranged ; and we should thus be led into a
variety of comparisons and inquiries, which, however interesting,
would far exceed the limits of this preface. It is thought better
not to delay the publication of the original facts, but to confine
ourselves on the present occasion to a general account of the pre-
liminary work, which has been thus far accomplished, and which
we believe is given in a form to save much time and labour in the
further investigations and comparisons which are sure to arise
from it.

The following are the rates of mortality deduced from the total
experience of healthy lives, male and female, IP”‘, compared with the
adjusted “Experience of the 17 Offices” and with the Carlisle Table
and also the rate of mortality amongst healthy lives, female only,
IF, compared with the original observations in the Peerage by
Messrs. Bailey and Day,* and those of the Government Annui-
tants by Mr. A. G. Finlaison.

* ” Journal of the Institute of Actoftriea,” voL is; p. 305.

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