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SUMMARY:Sickness experience in England\, 1870-1949 - Dr Andrew Hinde (Univ
 ersity of Southampton)
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CONTACT:Romola Davenport
DESCRIPTION:Using data from the Hampshire Friendly Society\, a sickness in
 surance institution in southern England\, we examine morbidity trends in E
 ngland between 1870 and 1949.  Morbidity prevalence increased between 1870
  and around 1890\, mainly because of a rise in the average duration of sic
 kness episodes\, but after 1890 average durations fell markedly even thoug
 h the incidence of sickness rose.  During the first two decades of the twe
 ntieth century\, sickness prevalence increased gradually but this rise was
  entirely due to the greatly increased duration of claims made by men aged
  65 years and over.  After the early 1920s both the incidence and the aver
 age duration of sickness claims declined.  These trends seem to be measuri
 ng ‘objective morbidity’: they vary closely with year-on-year changes 
 in the mortality of men of working age\, but do not show any clear relatio
 nship with real wages or unemployment.  Our conclusions are different from
  those of earlier research using English sickness insurance data. We belie
 ve that one reason for this was a methodological problem with the analysis
  performed by nineteenth-century actuaries. 
LOCATION:Board Room Faculty of History and online.
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