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Civil Service are proved to be less exposed to death by one-third than the 

 Army, and particularly in the junior ages. Yet, for the community at large, 

 including all classes, the Army casualties may be taken as a fair and 

 reasonable criterion. . ^ 



The Committee, it should be mentioned, in preparing their rates of 

 premium for Life Assurance, availed themselves entirely of Mr. Curnin's 

 data and calculations. This Table of Mortality it is not deemed right to 

 publish here, as Mr. Curnin would probably desire to bring it forward 

 under his own illustrations and details of the process of its laborious 

 compilation. His calculations exhibit the accurate results of research and 

 patient enquiry into the periods of service and dates of death of a greater 

 number of well known individuals than it is believed, have ever been 

 exhibited in any extant Table of Mortality. These calculations alone 

 would have been sufficient to guide the Committee safely to fix the 

 rate of premium, but it was thought fit to adduce at one view in the 

 Appendix to the Report, the whole of the general Documents in the 

 separate and previous possession of the Committee. The whole will be 

 found wonderfully to bear out Mr. Curnin's calculations when that gentleman 

 may find it convenient to publish them. 



A valuable paper by Mr. H. T. Prinsep, of the Civil Service, which 

 appeared in the Journal of the Asiatic Society for July 1832, has been 

 made use of. It embraces a period of forty-one years. It appears that 

 between 1790 and 1831, there were nine hundred and four Civilians, who 

 safely reached Bengal, so as to be included in the enquiry. From this 

 number two hundred and seventy-five lapsed in forty-one years, or at the 

 average rate of 2.25 per cent, of the lives yearly ascertained to have been 

 exposed to the decrement. 



Another document referred to was a Table by Major De Haviland, 



of the Madras Army, of the numbers, ages, and mortality of the Honorable 



Company's Ofiicers under Fort Saint George, from 1808 to 1820 inclusive : 



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