Description: This article discusses female and male mortality rates, the lower mortality rate of females and the ramifications of the increasing female population in terms of equitable treatment and their roles in the workforce.

Description: The article highlights the Northampton Table which is the earliest mortality table to be constructed especially for life insurance premiums. It contrasts the life expectancies of the Northampton Table with those of population tables one and two centuries later.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 10 is a recap of the mortality experience of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance.

Description: This article is an actuarial approach to speed and mortality by analyzing two 30-year old drivers, Quickly, who drives fast, and Legal who drives much safer. Different mortality decreases would result from different combinations of ages and speed reductions.

Description: This article contains a listing of the publications of the National Center for Health Statistics. Copies of any of the listed publications can be obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, Rockville, Maryland. In ordering, the series number and the number within the series should be given.

Description: This article is a book review of “Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival,” by Richard B. Singer, MD, and Louis Levenson, FSA. The author of this review notes “monumental is an adjective one hears in reference to this book and it certainly seems apt both in regard to the tremendous amount of work in its preparation and, more importantly, its value to those to whom it is directed. The book contains a mine of information in the form of mortality indices relating to a large number of risk factors, mainly specific diseases, abnormal physical findings, or abnormal findings on medical tests.”

Description: Summary of the Internal Revenue Service study on demographic and financial characteristics of the top wealthholders of the United States and a review of Metropolitan Life's mortality exerience for this group.

Description: This article summarizes the 1967 Surgeon General’s report on the health consequences of smoking.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 10 that is the report by Carl J. Singer, Chief Actuary, Veterans Administration, mortality experience of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance as being of interest to Companies writing military business.

Description: This graph indicates the overall historical trend in life expectancy at age 65.