ANNUITIES. 



TABLE IV. 



Shewingthe value of an annuity of 11. on a single life, atevery age, according to the pro- 

 babilities of life, in Mr. DeParcieux's table of the mortality. Interest at 5 per cent. 



The calculation of the values of joint 

 lives from any given table of mortality, 

 for every combination of age, is so labo- 

 rious a task, that no such table has yet 

 been published. Mr. Simpson, in his se- 

 lect exercises, gave a table of the values 

 of two joint lives, agreeable to the proba- 

 bilities of life in London ; but the tables 

 founded on the London bills, representing 

 the rate of mortality among the inhabi- 



TABLE V. 



Shewing the value of an annuity of 11. on the joint continuance of two lives, according 

 to the probabilities of life at Northampton. Interest at 5 per cent. 



tints, taken in the gross, give the values 

 of lives much too low for the middling and 

 superior classes of the people in London 

 itself, and are wholly improper for gene- 

 ral use. A much more comprehensive 

 table of the value of joint lives has since 

 been calculated by Dr. Price from the. 

 Northampton table of mortality, from 

 which the following table is taken. 



