The Mortuary Experience of the Mutual Life Insurance
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Company of New York, from 1843 to 1874.
The report before us is of the greatest interest. It contains valuable mortuary statistics from the foundation of the Society up to 1874. Since the Society has been formed, the total number of persons assured amounts to 101,967, out of which number 5,385 have died.
The minutest detail is entered into with reference to the deaths occurring in the various states, with special allusion to the epidemics and the casualties of war. Inflammation of the lungs, typhoid fever, and apoplexy appear to have been the most frequent cause of death; and alcoholism, by which is included intemperance and delirium tremens has caused thirty- one death.
The report contains important statistical tables showing the ages of those insured, the individual expectations, and other facts of interest, concluding with a number of mortuary charts most carefully drawn up.
Dr Winston and Dr Marsh, who are connected with this Society, have taken consummate pains in producing this valu- able and handsomely bound report.
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