On the Mortality among Innkeepers, Publicans, and other Persons engaged in the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors, — being the Experience of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society during Fifty Years, 1826–1876

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The influence of Occupation upon health and longevity, is, I think, a subject deserving of even more attention than has hitherto been given to it by the Actuarial and Medical Professions. As the benefits conferred by Life Assurance are now almost universally recognized, they are being taken advantage of by classes of the community which, until the last few years, did not seem fully to appreciate them. It is therefore of no little consequence to have, as far as possible, a clear understanding of the relative risks attaching to different occupations and to the various branches of industry.