Supplement to the Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Great Britain General Register Office
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484086837
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Excerpt from Supplement to the Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, Vol. 2 For example, the mortality of farmers by cancer and by phthisis is represented by the figures 36 and 79 respectively when account is taken of the ages of those dying from the two diseases; but if no account be taken of these age differences the mortality figure for cancer will be raised to 41 and that for phthisis will be lowered to 64. In the same way the mortality figure of inn servants for cancer, which now stands at 65, will be lowered to 41, while that for phthisis, which stands at 476, will be raised to 572 if age constitution be disregarded in both cases. Clearly, then, the mortality figures for separate causes in 1891, in which ages at death are taken into account, must not be put in comparison with the figures for 1881, for which period ages and causes in conjunction were not abstracted. Under these circumstances it became necessary to calculate for 1891 a second set of figures, which, although less accurate than the figures in Table IV., should yet be fairly comparable with such figures as it is possible to compute for 1881. This has been done in Table IX. For a selected number of occupa tions both the modified mortality figures for 1891 and the mortality figures for 1881 (which latter have been re-calculated for this Report on the basis of the 1891 age' constitution) have been distributed among those causes of' death that are given in Dr. Ogle's Supplement. These figures do not present in their true relations the rates of mortality in different occupations, but they are nevertheless useful for comparing the causes of death in any given occupation in 1891 with the causes in the same occupation in 1881. I have thought it advisable to preface my remarks on the several occupations with the foregoing explanations concerning the tables and the method of their construction. Tables I. - VI. Deal exclusively with the statistics of 1890 - 92 the fourth of these tables presenting those statistics as fully, and at the same time as concisely as possible. In Tables VII. - IX., the statistics for 1890-92 are shown in less detail in order to render them comparable with the statistics of the two earlier periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.