Description: This article discusses David Garrick Halmstad and his ten volumes from the Skandia Insurance Group's International Symposia on various medical impairments. While many of the papers in the volumes are of interest primarily to medical directors, there are some in each volume dealing with epidemiology and statistics that could be of interest to actuaries. As an example there are papers on alcohol consumption which are discussed in detail in this article.

Description: Shows the average historical and estimated annual mortality improvement by age grouping for the three countries, both in terms of long averages and the ultimate level assumed.

Description: Discusses changes that the Experience Committees of the Society are making to their processes to improve timeliness and quality of data.

Description: This article is a review and summary of the final volume in the series of Vital and Health Statistics Monographs initiated by the late Mortimer Spiegelman, FSA, in 1958. This final volume analyzes mortality and morbidity trends since the beginning of the century.

Description: a review of a paper by R. H. Daw, F.I.A. entitled “Smallpox and the Double Decrement Table: a piece of actuarial prehistory.”

Description: Article Board Of Governors by Bog in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: This article contains brief notes on the results from the Canadian mortality experience study for experience between the 1965 and 1966 anniversaries under standard Ordinary insurance issues.

Description: This article discusses to what extent mortality tables obey Benford’s Law.

Description: This article discusses the crossover of mortality rates around age 81 after which age nonwhite mortality is lower than white mortality and presents the best age statement data available from Medicare statistics.

Description: Summary of the recently constructed 1967 Canadian Ordinary experience tables which, for the first time, were constructed separately for males and females.