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Report on the construction of a General Table of Tropical Mortality Dec. 1903. 44811
05 Ceylon.
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
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port on the construc-
in of a General Table
Tropical Mortality Dec.1903.44811
05 Ceylon.
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 funda have however been
established in several other colonies as men-
tioned above, and during the last twenty
years statistics of the
mortality experience of those funds have be-
come available and a table of mortality has
recently been framed after an examination of
the data furnished the Ceylon, Jamaica Trinidad and Straits
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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
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