Vital Statistics; an Introduction to the Science of Demography |
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abcd age distribution age-group annual average birth birth-rate board of health Boston Bright's disease burial Cambridge cancer cause of death cent certificate cities coefficient coefficient of variation column comparison computed correlation department of health deviation diagram diphtheria district epidemic error estimates example factories facts females frequency curve given gives health officer height increase industrial infant deaths infant mortality laborers living logarithms males marriage marriage-rate Massachusetts mean measles median method mills months morbidity morbidity rate Name disease nosology number of deaths number of persons obtained occurred percentage physician plotted Pneumonia poisoning poliomyelitis population probability proportionate mortality public health Puerperal ratio records registrar result round numbers scale scarlet fever Septicemia slide-rule soldiers specific death-rates standard TABLE tion Total tuberculosis typhoid fever U. S. Bureau U. S. Census United variation vital statistics whooping cough
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Page 175 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 406 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 222 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Page 224 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively.
Page 2 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Page 478 - ... the coroner or other proper officer for his investigation and certification. And the coroner or other proper officer whose duty it is to hold an inquest on the body of any deceased person and to make the certificate of death required for a burial permit shall state in his certificate the name of the disease causing death, or if from external causes, (1) the means of death and (2) whether (probably) accidental, suicidal, or homicidal...
Page 221 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 484 - ... for the first birth and the first death in each calendar year, and sign his name as registrar in attest of the date of filing in his office. He shall also make a complete and accurate copy of each birth and...
Page 481 - This certification shall be signed by the attending physician or midwife, with date of signature and address; if there...
Page 406 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.