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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt:...the probability that a man dying at a given age will leave a widow, and the probability that a man dying in active service will have had at least 20 years of.service. These results are also given in Table XX, p. 106. We required also the average ages of wives for various ages of husbands, and the average length of time during which service and disability pensioners of given age had been on the pension roll. These are given in Tables XXI, XXII and XXIII below. TABLE XXI--(Chicago Firemen). AVERAGE AGE OF WIFE FOR VARIOUS AGES OF HUSBAND. (Graduated Values). TABLE XXII--(Chicago Firemen). AVERAGE TIME SERVICE PENSIONERS OF GIVEN AGE HAVE BEEN ON THE PENSION ROLL. (Graduated Values). TABLE XXIII--(Chicago Firemen). AVERAGE TIME DISABILITY PENSIONERS OF GIVEN AGE HAVE BEEN ON THE PENSION ROLL. (Graduated Values). On account of the inadequacy of the data, we were compelled to use for rates of mortality among pensioners rates other than those derived from the experience of the fund. After having made comparisons with various experiences, we concluded that we would be justified in using the same rates of mortality as were used for retired policemen and their dependents, and accordingly they were adopted. ACTIVE SERVICE TABLE AND SALARY AND PENSION SCALES. The rates given in Table XX, p. 106, were used to construct the active service table (Table XXIV, below). The salary and pension scales were prepared as in the case of the Chicago police fund. TABLE XXIV--(Chicago Firemen). ACT1VE SERVICE TABLE, AND SALARY AND PENSION SCALES. 318 312 336 329 316 308 301 291 280 275 260 259 271 284 271 287 278 271 259 248 237 221 207 202 197 189 159 131 103 78 57 39 25 13 $1,586 1,604 1,622 1.640 1.056 1.670 1.686 1.702 1.714 1,724 1,734 1,746 1,758 1,767 1,778 1,787 1.798 1.805 1...