CHAOS IN FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
STARTLING DISCLOSURES. 8? iSelcKSph—PyosS Association—Oottrrletrt London, March 15. The. Fabian Research Committee, after careful investigation of tho work" in.g of the Insurance- Act, report* that it has reason to fear that pisetioally all.societies having a largo proportion of women members have exceeded tho estimates of sick benefits from 25 to lflO per cent. Tho committee believes that tho first yew's claims will exceed the actuaries' estimates by nearly a million sterling. Tho sanatorium benefits are bfkward. The gravest feature is that millions of families earning below Hid pound a week level are practically always ill. The Act extracts a loaf of bread weekly from the bare cupboards, starving them farther into illness.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2009, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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116CHAOS IN FRIENDLY SOCIETIES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2009, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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