Iron County Record | 1936-04-23 | Page 4 | New York Life Notes Death Rate Decline

NOTES NEW NEW YORK NOTES DEATH RATE DECLINE A substantial decline from 64 M per per- percent cent tent In 1934 1034 to per percent nt In laU 1825 in the ratio of actual to expected Death Claims was reported by the New York Life Insurance Company In a statement made public by the company compans this week During the year rear 1935 1933 the company paid or credited to the beneficiaries bene of deceased policy policy- holders Included in m these totals are payments of 73 claims of Double Indemnity benefits for tor fatal ac accidents ac- ac amounting to morn more than Heart disease continued to be the principal cause of death accounting f for 18 percent of the deaths In 1935 Next In frequency were Cancer and Tumor with percent Influenza and aDd pneumonia with 88 U percent accident with 93 U per cent and apoplexy with 72 73 percent Automobile accounted for tor IU percent of the death claims Involving Double Doable indemnity pay lay menU meats being more snore than live five times as numerous as u any other single f form Inn of accident Among Amoni other causes cause of death of policy holders where Double Indemnity was wu paid were wert drowning and diving accidents falls murders bums burns and explosions atoms gunshot wounds el electricity hunting accidents railroad and machinery accidents very Every third person on whom death claims were paid was waa in the so so- called prime of life lito or younger 84 M percent of ot the total being not more than fifty years reul old