History, Present Position, & Social Importance of Friendly SocietiesHeywood, 1869 - 163 стор. |
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according Act of Parliament actuaries affiliated bodies amongst amount of sickness Ancient Order annuity annum Ansell Ansell's appears assurance average amount average liability average sickness benefits branches calculation cent claims compound interest condition Daniel Defoe death England and Wales exhibit existence experience extent fact Finlaison Foresters forty Freemasonry Friendly Societies Government honour House of Commons improvement increased individual initiation fee interest labour Lanuvium large number likewise lodges Manchester Unity member's wife members of Friendly ment nearly Neison number of members object Odd Fellows operation Order of Odd paid payment persons portion practical present value Preston district principle provident institution Ratcliffe Ratcliffe's rate of sickness rates of contribution referred reserved fund Savings Banks secure sesterces seventy shillings Shillings per week sick allowance Sick Gift sickness experienced subscription sufficient tables Tidd Pratt tion town twenty variation Vital Statistics whole York Lodge
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Сторінка 14 - might be improved into methods that should prevent the general misery and poverty of mankind, and at once secure us against beggars, parishpoor, alms-houses, and hospitals ; by which not a creature so miserable or so poor but should claim subsistence as their due, and not ask it of charity.
Сторінка 13 - If a member suffer from fire, water, robbery, or other calamity, the guild is to lend him a sum of money without interest. " If sick or infirm through old age, he is to be supported by his guild, according to his condition.
Сторінка 31 - ' that the operations of sickness and mortality do not bear to each other the relation of cause and effect.
Сторінка 17 - Societies in this kingdom, for securing, by voluntary subscription of the " members thereof, separate funds for the mutual relief and maintenance " of the said members, in sickness, old age and infirmity, is likely to be " attended with very beneficial effects, by promoting the happiness of " individuals, and at the same time diminishing the public burthens...
Сторінка 19 - The preamble to this act began 'whereas the habitual reliance of poor persons upon parochial relief, rather than upon their own industry, tends to the moral deterioration of the people, and to the accumulation of heavy burthens upon parishes; and it is desirable, with a view as well to the reduction of the...
Сторінка 17 - that the protection and encouragement of Friendly Societies in this kingdom, for securing, by voluntary subscription of the members thereof, separate funds for the mutual relief and maintenance of the said members in sickness, old age, and infirmity, is likely to be attended with very beneficial effects...
Сторінка 19 - ... contribution of the savings of many persons to one common fund, the most effectual provision may be made for the casualties affecting all the contributors; and it is therefore desirable to afford further facilities and additional security to persons who may be willing to unite in appropriating small sums, from time to time, to the formation of a common fund for the purposes aforesaid; and it is desirable to protect such persons against the effects of fraud or miscalculation.
Сторінка 10 - CLUBS. Mr. Kenrick, in his ingenious work on Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions, adduces the following evidence of the existence of burial clubs among the Romans from a monument found at Lanuvium, a town of ancient fame for the worship of Juno Sospita, about nineteen miles from Rome, on the Via Appia. The inhabitants of this town appear, out of flattery towards the Emperor Hadrian, in whose reign the marble was erected, to have formed themselves into a college for paying divine honours to Diana and Antinous,...
Сторінка 19 - ... made for the relief of the poor, as to the improvement of the habits of the people, that encouragement should be afforded to persons desirous of making provision for themselves or their families out of the fruits of their own industry...
Сторінка 50 - ... which is near the truth, and taking the total number of members in the Manchester Unity at 400,000,* a donation or gift of no less than £9,135,000 would be required to enable the Order to meet all its liabilities ; and that is taking it for granted that the affairs of these societies are conducted with proper regard to economy, and the funds invested to yield at least 3 per cent."f Mr. Neison afterwards...