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812 3LIFE ASSURANCE.
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and occupations , and also of how many die , at what age , and how many marry , of the various populations of our towns and districts ,
be mortality enable interesting the . ' gentlemen A to brief the known exp uninitiated lanation as _Actuaries . of Supposing how these to construct four are thousand arranged " tables may four of
town hundred and and it be eig found hty-one that individuals the united to die in of one the year men , in women any g , iven and ages
children , amounted to ninety-two thousand seven hundred and thirtywithout four , that distinction number g of ives old the or average . of Tables twenty of -one mortalit years y , to indeed each , ,
young are no more than records of the laws that govern human life , proving beyond doubt that a certain number of any given amount of
population are sure to depart this life yearly , as thus : —Of one thousand individuals now living
aged 20 , 7 will die before another year Is gone . SO 10
_„ „ 40 , , 12 '„ 50 , _. ' 14 „ „
Or of , , 55 thousand , children 19 born ,, in the same week „ it is a matter
of certainty that 646 will be living at 10 years of age .
609 „ 20 „ 584 „ 26 „
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473 „ 45 440 „ 50 „
These and similar tables of mortality form the basis upon which the calculations of Life Assurances are computed . The fundamental
certainty principles and by which constancy these of valuable the natural institutions laws as are regards guide the d being duration the
of life , for while nothing can be more uncertain than the life of any one individual , nothing is more certain than the recurrence of a
lar regular ages amount . For of while deaths the yearl great y among events any of life given and number the petty of isolated simi daily - of existenceseem to the unreflecting as so
chances occurrences , they are known , to those who study these things many to be only that part no of a event vast concerted however irregular whole . The it may doctrine seem to of us average , happens prove " by s
, chance . " For if each event , however insignificant , could be traced to its origin , it would be found to have naturally arisen from some
preceding course of conduct or unavoidable circumstance , our lives being a chain of which we cannot always perceive the
connecting are most links carefull . The arranged various and statistical preserved records shew , which that the of late mortality years
or deaths vary at y different ages : and althoug , h no amount of human
wisdom can fix the duration of one' single life or specify the
812 3life Assurance.
812 3 LIFE ASSURANCE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/24/
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