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I t i J f. f 1 GOOD 4 I J NEWS IJ i. i P I i 1 r I IJ S 4 J I f t Lt 1 Y t S 'S Si i kl is improving improving- a Send for or a Life Table TableS S disease is life is decreasing JJ Have you ever seen the figures shown lengthening You and your in Life Tables that tell the average life family have a better chance to live long holders They and taught expectations for for- for each each age While these thes and happily than people ever had before the well how to keep well tables may not apply to you 1 in the history of the world Your Four Health an in 1926 they do apply to the composite Splendid g- g gains ains have been made in the you you you-you you and all the other tens of thou thou- United States and Canada within the thelast Use the helps help offe offered ed by by medical sands at your age last thirteen years Stated in an insurance science to to prevent dis disease ase You need ante ance mans man's mans language five years have never fi fear ear t typhoid h o 01 i d d I Inoculation 1 a t. t Ion WI will II prevent pret prevent pre pre- Send for Tor a Life Table so that you may been added to the average expectation ven vent t it 1 t Y Your our C children 1 ren n nee need eed d never never h have ave see how many years it allots to persons of life d. d diphtheria IP ena T. T Toxin antitoxin an tt tr treatments ea t men t s of your age It will be marled malted free on re- re re-j re WI will II sa safeguard fi d th them em S Smallpox ma 11 pox WI will II no not t quest together with a list of many free But t more encouraging in in the same touch your your family if all ll are vaccinated booklets prepared by th the e M Metropolitan I Itan period nearly nine years were added when necessary One by one dread covering the cause ause and pr prevention ot of to the life expectation of Metropolitan diseases are being conquered In ten years almost every disease by which you are Industrial Policyholders a a gain over th threatened toned the tuberculosis death rate has s be been re reduced se- se the general genera 1 aver average age of four extra years more than one half Five years The Metropolitan Life Insurance How was this done Largely done Largely through ago ago the diphtheria death rate alone was Comp Company ny cordially invites all of its friends the inspiring work of our Metropolitan higher than that today for diphtheria and neighbors to share and use the knowl- knowl knowl-j knowl scarlet fever measles and whooping edge that is conquering disease an to the homes of millions of sick Policy Policy- cough combined building longer happier lives FREDERICK H H. ECKER Vice-President Vice HALEY FISKE President Two wo Metropolitan Statements which Break sea o all Previous Records Health and Welfare 1925 Fi Financial December Financial December 31 1925 r I o r Lives saved among Metropolitan r Assets Industrial Policyholders from 42 Liabilities 1911 to 1925 5 in excess of general I mortality improvement people L 1 t N Statutory Reserve J r Ii 42 D. D Dividends IVI d en d s t to 0 P Policyholders Policy Policy- 0 I. I ICY ICY- Lives Lives in In 1925 saved as among compared Policy Policyholders with the g i- i holders payable 1926 death for ti i All AIl other liabilities rate 1911 1911 people f II Unassigned Unassigned- U. U d ne d F Funds d s J 12 Decline in mortality rate among r r-IJ r Metropolitan Industrial Policyholders Policy- Policy d I holders since 1911 t I s Increase in in Assets durin during g 1925 De Decline lne in M Metropolitan Tuberculosis t los losis s mortality rate since SInce an 1911 i t Income in 1925 1920 Gain in In Income ome 1925 Decline in Metropolitan Typhoid Paid for Life Insurance Issued Increased In In- mortality ra rate e since 1911 98 c sensed creased sed and Rev Revived 1911 b 5 ce ved in 19 1925 5 29 Decline in Metropolitan Diphtheria f I Gain Gam In in Insurance In in Force in In 19 1925 1574 15 ria mortality rate since 1911 I t p Total Bonuses and Dividends paid ir 11 credited or to Policyholders Policyholders' from 55 Health information in advertisements advertise advertise- ft 1892 to 1926 ments reached in m In 1925 people Ii n I tJ 1 iI l Health in 1925 pamphlets distributed free I t Life Insurance Ors Oi tand anding rn g 1 in copies M Et 11 gf TraIn Trained d nursing care for sick f i Ord Ordinary inary Insurance 5 Policyholders holders in In 1925 visits nom ai Industrial premiums payable 11 1 I f jl weekly 00 Health films shown to more than than people Ir I 1 i l I y i q Group Insurance 1 Total expenditures for Health and md Zt w II r Total Insurance Outstanding ut 12 Welfare Welfare Work V or among Policyholders Policy- Policy v w V Jr umber Numbs r of Policies In in Force beholders De- De December Der r holders in In 1925 K-f. K cember 31 1925 6 The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is a mutual organization It has no stock and no stock stock- holders Its wealth is owned solely by its Policy Policyholders Policyholders-in holders in the United States and Canada Calada METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY J NEW YORK Biggest in the World More Assets More Policyholders More Insurance in force More ne new 1 v Insurance each year yeat |