On the Practice of the Eagle Company with regard to the Assurance of Lives classed as Unsound, and on the Rates of Mortality prevailing amongst the Lives so classed, assured during the Sixty-three Years ending 30 June 1871

Extract

Many years having elapsed since the Eagle Insurance Company first undertook to issue policies of assurance upon unsound lives, and some doubts having arisen as to the way in which the funds of the Society had been affected by such transactions, the Directors decided that a thorough investigation should be made into the business connected therewith, with the view of obtaining not only a record of the past, but also, if possible, of establishing a guide for the future, and I now have the pleasure, with their permission, of making public the results of that investigation.