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Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality
General Principles of Insurance and Tables of Mortality
Date:
1858
Description:
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company published a small handbook in 1858 to explain life insurance to policyholders. This section covered general principles and provided some of the tables of mortality then in use. Pages 10-17 of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Life Insurance, its nature, origin, and progress: a plain explanation of the principles. . .. New York: John A. Gray, 1858.
Rights:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.