CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 177

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1907

I think it would be hardly wise to name any

particulars Mortality Table in the Ordinance. It would be better

to leave the Mortality Table, as well as the rate of interest

to be fixed by the Registrar in consultation with the Actuaries.

The Mortality Table to be employed in valuing

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for solvency must represent as nearly as possible the actual

mortality to be experienced, and would depend to a large extent

on the residence of the policy holders. The mortality to be

expected in India is considerably different, for example,

the mortality to be expected in North China, and it would be

necessary to go into these details in settling the table. Pro-

-bably what is technically known as the H : the "Institute

of Actuaries Mortality Experience", or the tables known as the

based on the "British Offices Combined Experi-

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as for instance, to assume that lives aged 30 at present

resident in India experience the same mortality as the lives

aged 35 under the table. There is, in fact, the same difficulty in settling the mortality table as there is in determining the

rate of interest, and no one table can, I think be taken to

suit all Companies,

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