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Treatise on the Medical Estimate of Life for Life Assurance*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

S. H. Ward
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Extract

The principal circumstances affecting the value of individual live, have reference to sex, age, personal peculiarities, habits, occupation, residence, family history, previous ailments, and present health. These are brought before the medical referee, in the printed forms of examination and inquiry adopted by Life Assurance Societies, in a series of questions calculated to elicit the information required. In the present treatise they will be considered under several heads.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , October 1859 , pp. 248 - 263
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1860

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* These mean ages, and some of those which follow, appear to be derived from the deaths merely.—ED. A. M.