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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
The Norwegian General Widows' Fund (Den norske almindelige enkekasse) is a public institution, guaranteed by the Norwegian Government, and consisting of two sections. The older of these, which ceased to receive new members in 1848, contains (1) the members of the Norwegian Widows' Fund, established on 20 March 1814, and (2) the Norwegian members of the old Danish-Norwegian Widows' Fund, who were transferred to it in 1821 in accordance with the Treaty of Kiel.
page 90 note * i.e., Denmark and Norway.
page 90 note † The calculator, Mr. Lous, in his paper, “Zuverlassiger Bericht von der bey “Anlegung der neuen allgemeinen Wittwen-Kasse angenommenen Theorie und. “gebrauchten Rechnungs-Art; Copenhagen, 1778”, nevertheless mentions Mr. Wargentin's Swedish tables, which give the mortality for males and females separately, and would have been a far better basis.
page 91 note * T. N. Tetens's paper, “Nachricht vom Zustande der allgemeinen Wittwen-Kasse zu Copenhagen am Schluss des Jahres 1797.”