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Show OLD AGE RISKS IN FRANCE Number Who Are Registered Under Law Increasing Every Year, Statement Shows. Paris. Leon Bourgeois, minister ol labor, has tabulated statistics up to July 1 of the number of persons who have registered themselves for old age Insurance in accordance with the terms of the law of 1910, as amended in February, 1912. According to returns received from prefects of departments, the number of persons under obligation to insure now registered is 7,029,008, or an increase in-crease of 273,930 since the previous quarter day, April 1. The number of registered persons in France under an obligation to insure is about 12,000,000. The government, It is understood, regards the returns of July 1 as fairly fair-ly satisfactory in view of the fact that it has not been possible to apply actual actu-al compulsion, owing to an adverse decision of the court of cassation. A S.e.i bill making insurance effectively compulsory for the worldng classes is to be introduced in the chamber next session, and it will have every prospect of jissic-. It is in view of this situation thai the date for the practical application of compulsion was postponed till January, 1913. |