320 THE PRESENT EVOLUTION OF MAN — MENTAL 



Foresters (the last two or three years the Foresters' 

 age has been reduced to sixteen), and those at fifteen 

 who have been members of the juvenile branch have 

 been admitted without medical examination. From 

 these causes the rate of sickness at age eighteen was 

 1-005 week in the Rechabites, and -875 in the Foresters, 

 a difference of "22 week, about If day. The difference 

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

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



AMOUNT OF SICKNESS PER ANNUM FOR EACH 

 MEMBER AT RISK. 



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

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

 1-326 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 1^933 

 (Rechabites) and 1^953 (Foresters), difference •020. 

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

 at its highest, 6"055 (Rechabites) and 8-102 (Foresters), 



