The medical examination for life assurance : with remarks on the selection of an office / by F. de Havilland Hall.

  • Hall, F. de Havilland (Francis de Havilland), 1847-1929.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The medical examination for life assurance : with remarks on the selection of an office / by F. de Havilland Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an acute illness. The slight ailment may be the starting point of some severe, possibly fatal disorder, and after an attack of measles, typhoid fever, or other depressing malad}’, consumption not unfrequently follows. Fever.—The history of fever in the past, provided the attack occurred some months previously, would not affect the proposal. A recent attack of scarlet fever would suggest great care in examining the urine, and at least three or four months should have elapsed. As regards malarial fever, everything depends upon the time that has elapsed since the last attack, the absence of signs of malarial cachexia, such as an enlarged spleen, in the applicant, and whether he has any intention of returning to the locality where he contracted the fever. Acute Rheumatism.—An attack of acute rheuma- tism sufficiently severe to keep the patient in bed two or three weeks, and to incapacitate him from his occupation for six or seven weeks, would require the addition of an equivalent to seven years at the age of thirty, and three years must have elapsed since the attack. If there has been more than one ' attack, the life would not be assurable until ' at least ten years after the attack. An applicant with a rheumatic history had better not be accepted under the age of twenty-five years. The question of cardiac complications will be considered later on. Gout.—It seems that in the past, applicants with