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There were hardly any precise data of the mortality experienced by Government officers and their wives in tropical colonies, and the Northampton Table of Mortality was accordingly used as the most satisfactory basis then available.
Similar funds have however been established in several other colonies as mentioned above, and during the last twenty years statistics of the mortality experience of those funds have become available and a table of mortality has recently been framed after an examination of the data furnished by the Ceylon, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Straits Settlements experience. The actuaries' report on the subject was enclosed in Mr. Chamberlain's despatch No. 447 of the 17th of December 1903; and from it you will observe that the actual number of deaths was compared with the number allowed for by the Barbados Mutual Table, which