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the enclosure to Kr(now Sir) Claud Severn's
despatch No.164 of the 13th of April, 1921, as
to whether the membership of the Hong Kong
scheme is large enough to provide sufficient
data for such an investigation, further con-
ai de ration of the matter was deferred until it
was known whether similar investigations would
be made into the experience of the Schemes of the
Governments of the Straits Settlements and the
Federated Malay States; as it was thought that it
States;as
might then be possible to carry out a joint examina-
tion of the experiences of the Hong Kong and the
Malayan Schemes, the results of which might form the
basis of a "Far Eastern" table of mortality.
3. The Straits Settlements and the Federated
Malay States Governments have, however, decided not
to proceed with the proposal for an investigation
into the experience of their schemes. Any such
investigation would, therefore, have to be confined
to the experience of the Hong Kong Scheme alone.
4. Mr T.E.Young, who has been consulted in the
matter, has made the following observations on Mr
(26454/21 H.K).
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This Minute merely states that "the
number of cards to be sent in would notĮ
be sufficiently large (Hong Kong is a
A small Service)". I am unable as an
Actuary to form a judgment upon the
implication of "sufficiently large";
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but even should the statistics prove to
be comparatively sparse in number, they
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might constitute a reasonable quide to
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the selection of some Standard (or
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modified Standard) Table; and, as the
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Colonial Treasurer adds that "the work
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of sending in the cards would not be
very great", it would be desirable to
possess this limited experience.
I should point out that an exact
conformity of Experience with
Standard Table can not exist:
divergencies will occur at various
stages; but with the more extended range of membership, the correspondence between the experience and the standar
(modified if the facts justly suggest),
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will become more and more closely
ocincident, looking to the entire
course of that experience.
is all we require.
If the members of the Hong Kong Schere
be too meagre in number as a foundation
for the expectation of aver Le
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