1837.] Estimate of Life in the Civil Service. 841 



may be considered as a well-governed flourishing district. But on 

 this point I need not detain you, as the nature of the district is suffi- 

 ciently well known. 



The villages passed between Beesa and Muttock are few ; the first is 

 a small temporary village occupied by Nagas, about ten miles from 

 Beesa. The next is Dhompoan, a large Singpho village, half way 

 between the Naga village, and Rapoo, Rusoo ; and, lastly, Rupddoo. 

 Between this and Choakri Ting no villages occur. 



II. — Corrected Estimate of the risk of life to Civil Servants of the 

 Bengal Presidency. By H. T. Prinsep, Esq. Sec. to Govt. %c. 



In the number of this Journal for July, 1832, some Tables were 

 published showing the risk of life amongst Civil Servants on the 

 Bengal Establishment, and in a short article the principles were 

 explained upon which the tables had been framed. The method 

 adopted in that article for computing the risks of life in the Civil 

 Service of the Bengal Presidency has met the entire approbation of the 

 most able actuaries in England, and the tables have not only been 

 adopted as affording the best estimate forthcoming of the chances of 

 life amongst persons in good circumstances in the climate of India, but 

 attempts have likewise been made to apply the same method of compu- 

 tation toother services. Amongst others, Mr. Curnin has, we under- 

 stand, successfully computed tables framed on the same principles for 

 the Military Services of all the three Presidencies of India, from the 

 year 1765 to the present date, — a work of immense labour, the results 

 of which we have seen in abstract, and lament that the publication of 

 them has been so long delayed. As our Civil Service tables have 

 thus acquired an importance, as well from the use made of them by 

 insurance offices, as from the application of the principle to the 

 construction of other tables, we have deemed it necessary, now that 

 another lustrum of five years has passed since they were framed, to 

 republish them, completed to the close of 1836, and to draw attention 

 a second time to the method adopted in their construction. We will not 

 conceal that a principal motive with us for taking this trouble is that 

 we have discovered some errors in the Tables of 1832, and therefore 

 are anxious to supercede it for practical use by supplying one 

 more accurate. We are glad also to avail ourselves of the opportunity 

 to point the attention of public officers and persons of intelligence at 

 other Presidencies to the expediency of keeping registers and framing 

 similar tables for the different services with which they may be con- 

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