PROPORTION OF MEMBERS SICK AND RATES OF SICKNESS PER MEMBER PER ANNUM, MANCHESTER UNITY FRIENDLY SOCIETY-Continued.

GROUPS B, C, AND D (OUTDOOR BUILDING TRADES, RAILWAY, SEAFARING, AND OUTDOOR LABORING OCCUPATIONS)-Concluded.

GROUPS E AND F (QUARRY WORKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND CHEMICAL WORKERS,

PROPORTION OF MEMBERS SICK AND RATES OF SICKNESS PER MEMBER PER ANNUM, MANCHESTER UNITY FRIENDLY SOCIETY-Continued.

GROUPS E AND F (QUARRY WORKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND CHEMICAL WORKERS, ETC.)-Concluded.

PROPORTION OF MEMBERS SICK AND RATES OF SICKNESS PER MEMBER PER ANNUM, MANCHESTER UNITY FRIENDLY SOCIETY-Continued.

PROPORTION OF MEMBERS SICK AND RATES OF SICKNESS PER MEMBER PER ANNUM, MANCHESTER UNITY FRIENDLY SOCIETY-Continued.

PROPORTION OF MEMBERS SICK AND RATES OF SICKNESS PER MEMBER PER ANNUM, MANCHESTER UNITY FRIENDLY SOCIETY-Concluded.

Without entering upon an extended analysis of the foregoing tables, it may be noted that during the early years under observation the proportion of members sick decreases from the age 16 until the age 25, according to the last table, which shows the combined experience of all groups. Up to this age also the number of members sick after two years of sickness comprise less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the total membership, while after this age this percentage increases steadily; after the age of 60 the increase may be said to be rapid.

The proportion of members sick during the first two years of sickness does not fall to its minimum until the age of 29 is reached, after which it increases gradually, but does not attain to the rate at the age of 16 until the lapse of more than 40 years, or at an age of between 59 and 60 years. This movement is practically paralleled by the total of members sick.

Sickness during the first three months' period is by far the greater part of the total average weeks of sickness during the early years of life, and forms more than one-half the total until the age of 47. Sickness after two years is negligible at the beginning, and amounts to less