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Analecta.
mortality found by such experience to obtain among the various classes of disease " to which flesh is heir . " But then arose the difficulty of inducing the public to appreciate this valuable extension of the principles of Life Assurance . Years have now tested the safety ofthe tables , and the present magnitude of the operations ofthe AIedical and Invalid Life Assurance Society is shown in the annual report presented this week to the shareholders
and assured . The report itself is couched in terms at once so philosophical , and yet so perspicuous , that we should do injustice in compressing it , and our limits do not allow us to give it in esctenso . We , therefore , invite our readers to obtain a copy , assuring them that it will amply repay perusal . We do not think we ought to finish this notice without adverting to a highly instructive essay , by Afr . Neison , on the connection of Crime with Defective Education , based upon the criminal returns , ancl which was printed in the proceedings of the Statistical Society . —Trade Protection Circular .
AA ' e had intended to have entered at length into the report of the public meeting held on the 30 th November , but our present space will not permit . AVe shall merely state that the report was approved of by a very numerous assembly . —The statistical data must stand over . — En . G . A . A .
GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY . —The "Posthumous' Wol f . — So much care , so much elaborate ancl elaborately sifted and tested calculation , have , within late years , been given to the science ( as we may well call it ) of Life Assurance , and so many facilities afforded to all classes to share in its benefits ( so keeping even the posthumous wolf from the door ) , that it might have been held altogether hopeless , for any gentlemen to have originated a society with new and distinctive characteristics . This , howeverhas been clone ; the Gresham Life Assurance Societywhich
, , has been established some months , assures " declined" lives . Many of the older societies are bound , by rigid rules , and reject , or rather decline , often very reluctantly , the assurance of lives somewhat below the full average of healthfulness ; although not diseased , nor perhaps tainted with organic disease ; the lives of the delicate , the nervous , the un-robusta class of lives which , especially among persons in easy circumstances , or of happy and kindly temperamentare often of a good long span .
, To very many , then , this company offers what they will account a boon ; to all " declined" for the reasons we have stated . The " Gresham" of course deals with ordinary lives as well as with " declined . " ( The Gresham has powerful rivals in the Clerical ancl AIedical , and Medical Invalid Offices . )
NATIONAL PROVIDENT I NSTITUTION . —Dec . 15 . —Meeting of members at the London Tavern ; Mr . H . C . Lucas in the chair . The report stated as follows : number of policies during the past year , 1673 ; of which 1423 were accepted ; premiums , 24 , 725 / ., notwithstanding a reduction on some old policies , amounting to , 10 , 716 / . ; balance of receipts , over disbursements , 72 , 855 / . 19 s . 3 d ., making the total stock , 440 , 028 / . 15 s . Sd . ; paid during the year on claimed policies , 16 , 250 / . 10 s ., and to be paid , 7 , 7 49 / . ; reduction on premiums of twelve years standing , from 40 to 56 per cent . ; total receipts for the year , 114 , 364 / . lis . The report wasadopted unanimously .
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Analecta.
mortality found by such experience to obtain among the various classes of disease " to which flesh is heir . " But then arose the difficulty of inducing the public to appreciate this valuable extension of the principles of Life Assurance . Years have now tested the safety ofthe tables , and the present magnitude of the operations ofthe AIedical and Invalid Life Assurance Society is shown in the annual report presented this week to the shareholders
and assured . The report itself is couched in terms at once so philosophical , and yet so perspicuous , that we should do injustice in compressing it , and our limits do not allow us to give it in esctenso . We , therefore , invite our readers to obtain a copy , assuring them that it will amply repay perusal . We do not think we ought to finish this notice without adverting to a highly instructive essay , by Afr . Neison , on the connection of Crime with Defective Education , based upon the criminal returns , ancl which was printed in the proceedings of the Statistical Society . —Trade Protection Circular .
AA ' e had intended to have entered at length into the report of the public meeting held on the 30 th November , but our present space will not permit . AVe shall merely state that the report was approved of by a very numerous assembly . —The statistical data must stand over . — En . G . A . A .
GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY . —The "Posthumous' Wol f . — So much care , so much elaborate ancl elaborately sifted and tested calculation , have , within late years , been given to the science ( as we may well call it ) of Life Assurance , and so many facilities afforded to all classes to share in its benefits ( so keeping even the posthumous wolf from the door ) , that it might have been held altogether hopeless , for any gentlemen to have originated a society with new and distinctive characteristics . This , howeverhas been clone ; the Gresham Life Assurance Societywhich
, , has been established some months , assures " declined" lives . Many of the older societies are bound , by rigid rules , and reject , or rather decline , often very reluctantly , the assurance of lives somewhat below the full average of healthfulness ; although not diseased , nor perhaps tainted with organic disease ; the lives of the delicate , the nervous , the un-robusta class of lives which , especially among persons in easy circumstances , or of happy and kindly temperamentare often of a good long span .
, To very many , then , this company offers what they will account a boon ; to all " declined" for the reasons we have stated . The " Gresham" of course deals with ordinary lives as well as with " declined . " ( The Gresham has powerful rivals in the Clerical ancl AIedical , and Medical Invalid Offices . )
NATIONAL PROVIDENT I NSTITUTION . —Dec . 15 . —Meeting of members at the London Tavern ; Mr . H . C . Lucas in the chair . The report stated as follows : number of policies during the past year , 1673 ; of which 1423 were accepted ; premiums , 24 , 725 / ., notwithstanding a reduction on some old policies , amounting to , 10 , 716 / . ; balance of receipts , over disbursements , 72 , 855 / . 19 s . 3 d ., making the total stock , 440 , 028 / . 15 s . Sd . ; paid during the year on claimed policies , 16 , 250 / . 10 s ., and to be paid , 7 , 7 49 / . ; reduction on premiums of twelve years standing , from 40 to 56 per cent . ; total receipts for the year , 114 , 364 / . lis . The report wasadopted unanimously .