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apfwosching. It mint therefore be supposed (unless, as before hinted 

 at, icinc proof from the records of toe office be produced to the 

 contrary) that the duamunuanU, or m Terr Urge majority of them, 

 lired the whole year of dinontinuaooe in the office. Thin will make 

 the mortality a little lea* than that represented in the table, though 

 not much. 



There is also a point on which, if our information be correct, the 

 method of forming thin table has been misapprehended. Those who 

 tu<ly the sul'ject are aware of the thing to which we refer (' Knc. 

 Metr.,' article Mortality,' part ii., 53, note), and will therefore oom- 

 praheod the following. It is, we undentand, the practice of the 

 society in question to make up the registers on the first day of January, 

 at which period every person insured during the previous year is |>ut 

 down a* being of the ofce age which he had at his entrance. Now 

 this office age means the age at the next birthday ; that is, one with 

 another, parties do not attain their office age till they have lived half 



a year in the society. But on each first of January thu parties 

 insured during the previous year have,..:., with another, livi 

 a year in the .society, so that they are correctly stated as being of 

 their office age when the registers are made. The preface <>f this 

 very valuable table is not sufticiciitly explicit <>n this and several 

 point*. 



4. The Friendly Societies' Table, The materi.il* fur this table were 

 collected by the Society for the Diffusion^ of Useful Knowhtlgc, and 

 were discussed by Mr. Ansell in the work cited above, which .-L..iil.l !* 

 in the hands of every one interested in the excellent institutions of 

 which it treats. It embraces the history, as to mortal i- 

 years of life, among the labouring classes, from all port.- 

 iixliscriminately, and from 1823 to 1828. 



The explanation U us follows: Of 10,000 infant* born at (. 

 1639 would die in their first year, and 8461 would survive, while 4000 

 would live to 56 and upwards. In the Equitable Table, > :.;'.'-- 



II. TEABLT RATE* or MORTAUTT rrox 10,000 Lira ACCOUHXO TO TIIM 

 NuaTiiAvrruit. CAELIILE, EariTAiLi, AXU FUBXDLY SOCIETIES' TABLE*. 



III. MEAN DUEATIOX or THE LITE* or 100 IHDIVIDVAU or F.VHV AOK, ACCOSDIXO 

 TO THE NOKTUAXITOX, CAKI.ISI.K, Km nAiu.r, AXD FEIEMILY SOCIETIES' TABLES. 



