1837.] 



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does not equal one half of the deaths, hut this statement we would re- 

 mark is not framed to show the chance an individual entering the Ben- 

 gal Civil Service has of retiring with a fortune. For the exhibition of 

 that result a very different table must be prepared, framed on the 

 principle of following out the nominations of those particular years of 

 which all the nominees are expended by death or retirement. There 

 are four years in this predicament, the results of which give the fol- 

 lowing ratios of deaths to retirements. 





Deaths. 



Retirements. 



Nominations. 



Before 

 20th year. 



In or after 

 20th year. 



Before 

 20tu year. 



In or after 

 20th year. 



1790 19 

 1792 18 



1794 26 



1795 32 



8 



5 



12 



8 



3 

 2 

 6 



8 



2 



2 

 5 

 6 



6 

 9 



4 

 10 



95 



33 



18 



15 



29 



51 



44 



From this it would appear that out of ninety-five Bengal nomina- 

 tions the deaths are 51, or more than half; the retirements are 

 44, of which 15 occurring before the 20th year cannot be considered 

 as retirements with fortunes made in India. Twenty-nine, however, out 

 of 95, or somewhat less than one-third, is the proportion of retirements 

 with fortune afforded by the results of these four years. 



To return, however, to the life tables: we have not thought it worth 

 while to publish on this occasion the extended tables in which the 

 results of each individual year have been combined for the formation 

 of the corrected general result now exhibited. These exist together 

 with elaborate registers with the name of every Bengal Civil Servant 

 inscribed ready to be referred to by any person desirous of looking 

 further into the detail. We explained fully in the article of July, 1 832, 

 the method we had followed in extracting and combining these 

 results, and it would be an unnecessary repetition therefore to follow 

 the process of computation again through each of the stages. We 

 conclude with expressing our desire that the present table may super- 

 cede altogether Table III. of the article of July, 1832, and we vouch for 

 its superior and, we believe, perfect accuracy. The quinquennial 

 percentage is carried only to the thirteenth year of residence or 49th 

 of life. The results of the remaining years are gathered into our per- 

 centage for the whole. 



