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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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The Minute

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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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