Journal of the Institute of Actuaries: Volume 20 -

Does vaccination afford any protection against small-pox?
T. B. Sprague
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18 August 2016, pp. 216-232
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A satisfactory anser to the question I hav placed at the hed of this articl can only be got by means of an examination of statistics carefully compiled. If we coud obtain statistics shoing the rate of mortality from small-pox among two bodies of persons, similarly circumstanst as to ages, occupations, conditions of life, and other things; and differing only to this extent, that all the persons in the one body had been vaccinated, and none at all in the other body; then an examination of such statistics woud giv a conclusiv anser to the question. But such statistics ar clearly unattainabl. Those that ar forthcoming wil be more or less deficient in the accuracy we hav supposed; and our conclusions will therefore only hav a greater or less degree of probability. acording as the statistics ar more or less complete and accurat.

Married Women's Property Act.—Form of Procedure in appointing Trustee thereunder
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18 August 2016, pp. 298-299
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Formulas for the Values of Endowment Policies that have been in force a given number of years
David J. A. Samot
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18 August 2016, pp. 344-347
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Life Insurance and Suicide
J. W. Eastwood
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18 August 2016, pp. 349-355
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In looking over the rules of a few insurance societies, I could not avoid observing the want of unanimity which prevailed with respect to the manner in which they deal with suicides whose lives have been insured. This induced me to take up the subject, and obtain all the information I could from the different offices in England and Scotland. My information is gained from eighty-one out of ninety-two offices, and from the actuaries or secretaries of several of these I have received valuable assistance and useful facts. The ways are so various in which the different companies treat this subject, that it is not easy to classify them briefly. The general rule is, that a life policy is forfeited by suicide, whether the assured has been of unsound mind or not; and the following rule occurs so frequently, that it may be quoted to represent a very large proportion, which I cannot accurately ascertain, of all the insurance companies.

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