[Rarebooks] fs: 1850 Study of Mortality in Professions & Trades

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Ratcliffe, Henry. OBSERVATIONS ON THE RATE OF MORTALITY & SICKNESS EXISTING 
AMONGST FRIENDLY SOCIETIES: PARTICULARIZED FOR VARIOUS TRADES, OCCUPATIONS, 
AND LOCALITIES...

Manchester; Printed for the Order by George Falkner, King Street: 1850. 
"With a series of tables, shewing the value of annuities, sick gift, 
assurance for death, and contributions to be paid equivalent thereto: 
calculated from the experience of the members composing The Manchester 
Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows". Yes friends, what we have 
here is antiquarian insurance porn! But this is antiquarian insurance porn 
which gives us great insight into the often-lethal hazards which members of 
a great many trades and occupations were exposed to in the mid 19th 
century. So you really are buying it for the articles...

Hardcover. 6.5"x10", 168 pages; a somewhat battered and bothered copy, with 
both covers detached and the spine missing; ex-library, with several 
stamps, etc; first eight-page gather detached -needs rebinding. Some soil 
and wear. [07997] $200.00


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