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Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company published a small handbook in 1858 to explain life insurance to policyholders. This section described the importance of the medical exam and the conditions that might disqualify an applicant for life insurance. Page 44-58 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.
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