Excerpt from An Account of an Investigation of the Sickness and Mortality Experience of the I. O. O. F. Manchester Unity During the Five Years 1893-1897Undeterred by Opposition from within, or adverse criticism from without its own ranks, the Manchester Unity pursued its search after truth. From the Returns, which were with difficulty obtained, it gave to the world the results of its first investigation in 1850. The second followed at a short interval, and the third, upon which the tables now in use were based, was issued in 1872. These works will ever remain a monument, not only to the genius of Henry Ratcliffe, their author, but also to the far-sighted policy and deter mination of those leaders in the Manchester Unity, who at all hazards resolved that light to its fullest extent should be shed upon the operations of a society which so closely affected the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of their fellow-countrymen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.