, 1875-03-28

Tho London Times says: 'sAt tho monthly
meeting OF the Institute Of Actua1ies, held re-
Gently at Kings College, Somerset Rouse, in in-
terestine paper on the duration Of female Life as
distinct from that OF the male sa1 Was read by
Mr.. Cornelius Walford. F. s. s. He showed thai
the subject ,sas one which had not attracted
much special attention till comparatively ro-
cant period, Dr.. Hawley, Of Dreslau, Who wrote
in 1851, having evidently supposed both sexes to
be equally ong-iyed. Maitland, in lis History
Of Loudon, published in 1893, Was OF opinion
than males in the world VAS tallacy. the chris
taniug of boys within the bills of mortality be-
ing per cent greatar than those Of girls. kerse-
bonn, in his Investigations into the mortali-
ty OF Dutch annultants IN lI72. separated the
male from the female lives: but be doeB not ap-
pear in his tables to have noted any diferene o
IN their relative longevity. -Four yeara later II
Deparcieu1, in his observations on the nominees
OF French Tontines, lays it down that the 'ex-
pectaney Of life is greater in the female than in
the male OF all ages; but he Goes not deter
mine the precise ratio. It was the Equitable
Society which, in 1862, first appro1lmated
to the truth Of the matter, by making
q distinction OF rates of premium for each sax, and
taking no female lives under SO years Of age in
surers except at special rates. Tue well-known
tefs, in 17713 speaks incidentally OF the greater
mortality Of males I'D compared With females, as
beng generally acknowledged; and Brand,
speaking Of the sAmicable, says that in it the
life Of . WOMAN as compared with that OF T. man
is Of the same proportion as two to oua.' Mr. i.
Chester, in l783, asserted that the difference be-
tween male and female lives Was in favor Of the
latter; and the same rule was laid down in some
Swedish tables constructed about the same date.
It Ii only in the ifsh edition Of his work Oh this
subiec: that DR.. Price appears to haye woke up
to the Importance Of the question, 10 the interest
OF insurance companies. Mr.. Walford then
quoted the statements Of the Carlisle Tables, Of
tho Parliamentary Committee OF 1897, OF If.
Quetelet, of Mesars. Bailey and Dny, OF Fin
laison, ETC., as on the whole showing that from
tho first to last the expectancy Of
the malo sex. The same result was lr-
rived at from certain statstics Of universal lives
among the higher and wealthier classes, which
we're obtained and tabu1ated in 1874 3 result
which may be expressed in the following terms,
VIZ: that at every age the aggregate mortality
from birth up to such nge ls greater among
males than among females, and that out Of
the Same number Of each sex, born alive, fewer
males than females survive to any given age.'
added the 1eadcr Of the paper, by the experience
Of foreign countries, both on the Continent and
in America But this must be understood with
some qualification :; for, strangely enough, while
the CT 1pectaucy OF life is creator generally among
yomen than men, most OFFICES find that, Of q
given number Of insured lives, more women die
than men. This, however, was to be accounted
tor By the fact that whereas malo insurers are
drawn from all cIasses1 only one small c1ass
Of females, ns rule, Beek to insure their
liyes-namely, women in state OF actual or ex-
pectans pregnancy; and here, Is he believed,
fay the secret Of the anomaly which had been
observed"