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On the Mortality of Assured Lives in the West Indies (chiefly Barbados)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

George F. Hardy  and
Howard J. Rothery
George F. Hardy
Affiliation:
Institute of Actuaries
Howard J. Rothery
Affiliation:
Institute of Actuaries
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The Institute of Actuaries has always been ready to welcome contributions from members able to give information regarding the mortality found to prevail among special classes of lives, and among lives resident in other parts of the world than Great Britain. The authors of the present paper having had occasion to look closely into the subject of West Indian mortality, chiefly in connection with the financial affairs of the Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society, have therefore willingly responded to an invitation to lay before the members of the Institute some account of the statistics which they have been able to gather, and of the conclusions at which they have arrived. They desire, in the first place, to express their thanks to the directors of the Barbados Mutual Society for permitting them to publish the results of the society's mortality experience, and to Mr. Spencer C. Thomson, the manager of the Standard Life Office, for some valuable statistics relating to the experience of that office regarding West Indian mortality.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1888 , pp. 161 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1889

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References

page 178 note * It may here be noted that this remark refers only to acclimatized lives.

page 181 note * Supplement to 35th Annual Report, page 2.

page 181 note * Supplement to 45th Annual Report, page 2.

page 182 note * Including 6 “unknown,”

page 191 note * [The method adopted in the Mortality Experience of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company (published in Hartford, Conn. , in 1884) appears to have been a modification of Galloway's, the experience dealing with policy-years, and the age at entry being taken as the nearest integral age.—ED, J.I.A.]