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2. British Medical Journal 19 May 1894; C.J. Bunyon, cited in Olive Anderson, Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), p. 269.
3. R. Van Selm, History of the South African Mutual Life Assurance Society 1845–1945 (Cape Town: South African Mutual Life Assurance Society, 1945), p. 8.
4. Scottish Provident Institution, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of Contributors (Glasgow: privately published, 1849), pp. 11–12.
5. W. Wynn Westcott, Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention (London: H.E. Lewis, 1885), pp. 180–1; National Life Assurance Society Agency Reports (16 August 1892), Guildhall Ms 34, 413.