TEMPERANCE AND INSURANCE.
The Sceptre Life Association has just issued its report for the year ended in December last. Of the C 62 policies issued, 455 were on the lives of total abstainers, or upwards of 68 per cent. ; of these latter, 272, or 60 per cent., were life abstainers. The claims by death expected during the past year (calculated by the Institute of Actuaries' human mortality table) as compared with those which actually occurred, show in the general seotion the percentage of 8480; bnt those in the Temperance section were oaly 56*63. As showing that the favourable mortality is not confined to the past year, the following results for the preceding 12 years are given:— ln the general seotion the expected deaths were 1274; the actual deaths 1025 : percentage, 80-45. In the Temperance section the expected deaths were 661, the actual deaths 385: peroentage, 58-21.
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 25 September 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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146TEMPERANCE AND INSURANCE. Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 25 September 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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