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Foresters (the last two or three years the Foresters' 

 age lias been reduced to sixteen), aud those at fifteen 

 who have been members of tlie juvenile branch have 

 been admitted without medical examination. From 

 these causes the rate of sickness at a^re eisifhteeu was 

 I'OOo week in the Rechabites, and "875 in the Foresters, 

 a difference of *22 week, about 1^ day. The difference 

 tlecreases year by year until age thirty-four, when the 

 Bechabites have I'll? week, and the Foresters 1*062 



AMOUNT OF SICKNESS PER ANNUM FOR EACH 

 MEMBER AT RISK. 



week only, '055 week less. Then the difference increases 

 again to age forty-one, when the sickness is 1"451 and 

 1'32G week respectively, the difference being '125 week. 

 It then rapidly falls, till at the age of forty-nine the 

 difference in favour of the Foresters is only '056, and at 

 age fifty the tide has turned and the numbers are 1;938 

 (Rechabites) and 1^U53 (Foresters), difference •020. 

 It then rises considerably to age sixty-seven, when it is 

 at its highest, 6'05o (Rechabites) and 8^102 (Foresters), 



