Show life insurance statistics prove that sweden has had hard times for the past twenty months the amount of new policies ir sued issued was on the increase until the year 1892 but the total for that tha t year was only against jsn 11 for the year 1891 on the other hand the amount of policies cancelled was 6 which is nearly fifty four per ceat cent 0 of the amount of new policies issued during the year only fourteen per cent of the insurance cancelled was due to deaths the remaining forty per cent being lapses the reports of four of the oldest companies show that forty of their policy holders committed committe suicide during the year while the gre greatest adest number of 0 suicides for any previous year was only fourteen |