On some points in the medical history of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society / by W.H. Stone and Stewart Helder.

  • Stone, W. H. (William Henry), 1830-1891.
Date:
[1872]
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Credit: On some points in the medical history of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society / by W.H. Stone and Stewart Helder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    / / / ON SOME POINTS IN THB MEDICAL HISTOEY OE THE CLEEGY MUTUAL ASSUEANCE SOCIETY. The late Secretary and founder of this flourishing Society, not long before his death, had consented to our expressed wish that we should conjointly draw attention to some statistical and medical points of its early history. As the task, commenced some time ago, had been delayed by press of urgent busi- ness, his consent has since been more formally confirmed by the present Committee of Management. The reason and object of such an association between the Actuary and Physician to the Society will be obvious to any one who looks over mortality tables as collected by several of the older and larger offices; whereas some are too strictly and exclusively medical, others, the majority, are purely collections of figures collated with numerical accuracy, and though well adapted for actuarial purposes, convey little or no professional information to the medical officers of similar corporations. To be generally useful such papers as the present should partake almost equally of the statistical and of what may be termed the By W. H. stone, P.B.C.P. STEWAET HELDEE, PELIOW OP THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. 1 //