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320 Foresters (the last two or three years the Foresters' age has been reduced to sixteen), and those at fifteen who have been members of the juvenile branch have been admitted without medical examination. From these causes the rate of sickness at age eighteen was 1·005 week in the Rechabites, and ·875 in the Foresters, a difference of ·22 week, about 1½ day.

The difference decreases year by year until age thirty-four, when the Rechabites have 1·117 week, and the Foresters 1·062 week only, ·055 week less. Then the difference increases again to age forty-one, when the sickness is 1·451 and 1·326 week respectively, the difference being ·125 week. It then rapidly falls, till at the age of forty-nine the difference in favour of the Foresters is only ·056, and at age fifty the tide has turned and the numbers are 1·933 (Rechabites) and 1·953 (Foresters), difference ·020. It then rises considerably to age sixty-seven, when it is at its highest, 6·055 (Rechabites) and 8·102 (Foresters),