Observations on the expediency of instituting a friendly association of the medical profession throughout Scotland, for insuring a provision during sickness and old age, widows' annuities, endowments to children, &c / by Edward D. Allison.

  • Allison, Edward D.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the expediency of instituting a friendly association of the medical profession throughout Scotland, for insuring a provision during sickness and old age, widows' annuities, endowments to children, &c / by Edward D. Allison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lowing computations *, which, making allowances for incidental charges, may serve as examples. Contributions of L. 1 annually to each fund, fi-oro 20 to 70 ye^rs of age, will afford the following allowances : Sickness weekly, - - L. 1 0 7 Old age Annuity, - - 5S 0 2^ Funeral, - - - 59 19 8 (The contribution must be doubled for a Wife or Widow. Widows' Annuity, - - 5 12 6^ The sum required to be paid down at once for these allowances will be ly. 72: 9 • ^fjj or for each L. 18 : 2 : 4. If the proposal now respectfully submitted, me- rit the least attention from the medical profession, it will, of course, be necessary, in the farther pro- gress of it, to avoid the various errors into which, it must be admitted, Friendly Societies have not un- frequently fallen. These errors and the obvious improvements are fully and ably stated in the Re- port of the Committee of the Highland Society, drawn up by Mr Oliphant, a work which ought to be in the possession of, and studied by, every wellwisher to the best interests of his fellow beings, and to which I cannot do better than simply refer. » Highla^id Society's Report, pages 236, 237, 238, 239.