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Excerpt from Vital and Monetary Losses Due to Preventable Deaths The purpose of 'this paper is to set forth the results of a statistical investigation of the vital and monetary losses in this country due to the occurrence of preventable deaths; to show (a) to what extent the average length of human life is affected by the occurrence of such deaths; (b) the effect on the expectation of life, or average future life time, at any age; (0) the effect on the death rate, at any age; (d) how great a monetary loss is sustained through such a death, assum ing that the life of every person has a value, or that during the most productive period of his life - say from the age of twenty to seventy years - every person contributes some thing annually to the wealth of the community in which he lives; and (e) the total value of these losses, estimated for each age for both males and females, for the whole country. We have obtained the results set forth in this paper through the comparison of mortality tables which we have constructed and which are based upon the different sets of conditions and hypotheses that are to be introduced and discussed; and a familiarity with what is involved in a mortality table and the expectation of life is so essential to the complete under standing of what follows that we shall now explain briefly what these terms imply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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