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Estimate of Life in the Civil Service. 



[May, 



nected. In a very valuable paper drawn up by Mr. Griffith Davies 

 for the Bombay Civil Fund, a form of register is given, which, if duly 

 kept, will afford the means of constructing accurate tables for any 

 purposes framed precisely upon our principle, and this table may be 

 adopted for a regiment or for any number of persons circumstanced 

 alike — that is, when in a condition to yield a fair average of casualties, 

 just as well as for a service constituted like the Civil Services of the 

 different Presidencies. The only thing to be attended to is, that in 

 like manner as a separate page in the service registers ought to be 

 set apart for the nominations of Civil Servants for each year, because, 

 forf acility of computation, we assume them to be of persons of the 

 same average age, so a separate page must be assigned to persons of 

 the same age when the register is formed for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing the risks of life amongst persons promiscuously selected, and not 

 of uniform or nearly corresponding ages. 



As it is of importance that this should be well understood, and 

 because we wish to inculcate the expediency of framing tables of the 

 same kind not only for his Majesty's and for the Native regiments, 

 but likewise for the natives of cities and towns in different parts of 

 India, we shall devote a few words to a little further explanation of the 

 registers we recommend to be kept. The following is the form into 

 which any number of names upon which it is desired to obtain life 

 results of any kind may be entered, taking care only, as before pointed 

 out, that those entered in the same page are always of the same age 

 at the time of first registry. 



Page 14. 



Ag:e 23, 1st year. 2nd. 



3rd. 4th. 5Ui. 6th. 7lh. 8th. 9th. 10th. &c. 



A. 



l 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1* 













B. 



1 



1 



I 



1 



1 



\ died. 













C. 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 mar. 



1 



1 one 



1 



1 



1 





D. 



1 



1 



5 died. 









son. 













4 



4 



3§ 



3 



3 



21 



1 



1 



1 



1 





Page 16. 

























Age 25. 

























E. 



1 



1 



\ died. 



















F. 



1 



1 



L 



1 



it 















G. 



1 



1 



l 



1 



i 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 





H. 



1 



1 



1 



1 



i 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 







4 



4 



3§ 



3 



2§ 



2 



2 



2 



2 



2 





Now if one hundred names of soldiers were entered in the first 



column as having come into the country at the age of 23, though 



every one of them came, perhaps in a different year, still the register 



for as many years as it may extend in respect to these persons, 



* Discharged. f Returned to England. 



