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    270 dfrieistdly societies.

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    the northman is afflicted , his liability to sickness must be placed against the duration of the latter's illness . Thus a balance is

    established and the average sickness of the whole year to each person throughout England and Wales differs in its greatest extremes _biit

    a day and a half . Thus : — Average to each sickness erson per in days annum

    South-western Province p 11 * 01 . Midland 10 * 85

    Welsh . 10 * 13 Manufacturing . ; 10 * 06

    Northern 10 * 02 Eastern 9 * 88

    South-eastern . 9 * 88 _Metropolitan 9-45

    Besides the above most interesting tables there are others showing the influence of various kinds of labor * as light labor and

    heavy labor , with or without exposure to the weather . What is sought to be provided against in most Friendly Societies is the

    temporary inability to labor . The following definition of sickness in relation to the ability to Jab or is given by a high medical authority : —

    all sickness , being either acute or chronic , recoverable or irrecoverable , no attack of acute recoverable sickness ever lasts longer than

    from six -weeks to three months , and chronic recoverable sickness no longer than twelve months . Mr . Scratchley has thus summed

    up his own extensive and accurate observations , confirmed hj those of Mr . Finlaison _, the eminent actuary , that the degree of inability

    to labor at various ages follows a simple natural law , which may be exj ) ressed as follows .

    I . —That from the age when infantile diseases are past , and the nature of the constitution of the individual is becoming more

    declared , —at age fifteen , —there is a certain constant minimum rate of sichness per annum to which human beings ( on the average of a

    large number of lives ) are subject at every period of life , and that this rate depends upon the raceclimate , & cand so far as

    observa-, , tions in the United Kingdoms go , seems to be between the limits of five and seven days' sickness per annum .

    II . —That at each age , every individual is" _exj _^ osed , according to his occupation , rank of life , & c , to

    An over access such cons sickness tant 1 ( increasin his ears g w a i nd th 1 ?¦ the the sum fifth of and the tenth excesse ears s in sickness , (_ equal y to , ) preceding . y

    With regard to the sickness experienced by the female members of Friendly Societies there is no distinct date obtainable . The

    Keports state , " That there is reason to believe that it is heavier in amount than that undergone by the males . But unfortunately

    mention was scarcely made in the returns of the nature of the occupation in which the women were employed . And looking to the

    striking influence which this consideration displays on the amount

    270 Dfrieistdly Societies.

    270 _dfrieistdly societies .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/54/