Metropolitan Life Assurance Society. Mortality experience, from 1st January, 1835, to 31st December, 1864.

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[1865]
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Credit: Metropolitan Life Assurance Society. Mortality experience, from 1st January, 1835, to 31st December, 1864. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    OBSEKVATIONS. The following Tables are the results of an investigation of the rate of mortahty which has prevailed in the Metropolitan Life Assurance Society, during a period of thirty years, that is to say, fi-om the foundation of the Office on the 1st January, 1885, to the 31st December, 1864. The observations extend over the whole of the policies issued, but the results have been obtained in regard to lives only; all multiple policies on any Hfe after the fii'st, having been eliminated, except when the risk has not been continuous. The Experience embraces the deaths from all causes in all classes of assurance. No regard has been paid to any extra premium charged for CHmate, Military or Naval risk; nor has any distinction been made between the British and Irish Lives, the latter numbering only 55, or per cent, of the whole body. The number of lives under observation is 4,441, whose duration on the office registers was traced, on the average, for a period of eleven and a-half years from theii' admission. At the close of the peiiod of observation, 3072 or 69.5, per cent, were still existing. 698 or 15.7 per cent, had lapsed. 671 or 15.1 per cent, had died. 4441 .... Total number of lives.