MORTALITY IN WAR TIME
REMARKABLE INSURANCE CHART. In the course of his speech at tho luecting of tho Prudential Assurance Company, Sir Thomas Dewey, the chairman, described a. remarkablo chart which had been prepared showing the rates of mortality of tho whole of their male industrial policy-holders during the years 1913, 1915, 1916, and 1917. Ho stated that before the war—in 1913 —tho mortality experience exactly roproduced that of tho latest census table, particularly at the military ages. At Iho age of 21 tho mortality rate in 1915 was five times that of tho pre-war experience; in 1916 nine times; and in 1917 twelve times. Tho diagram shows that in 1913 tho rale of mortality for men of 31 was rntlier less than four per 1000; in 1915, 20; in 1916, 38; and in 1917, 48. Last year the rate of mortality for men of 20 was equal to that of men of 64.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 207, 21 May 1918, Page 4
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154MORTALITY IN WAR TIME Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 207, 21 May 1918, Page 4
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