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Mortality

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  • A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.
  • A Roman mosaic representing a skeleton reclining. Photograph by Edizione Alinari.
  • Mortality of the British army at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England.
  • Annual report of the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in England.
  • A man being vetted by an insurance salesman. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1896.
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Catalogue

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    • Online

    United States life tables, 1910 / prepared under the supervision of Prof. James W. Glover, of the University of Michigan.

    United States. Bureau of the Census. | Date: 1916
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    Statistical examination of the Margate death-rate, for the five years, 1863-1867 : by order of the Council of the Borough of Margate / by Edward Mottley.

    Mottley, Edward. | Date: 1868
    • Books

    World mortality in 2000 : life tables for 191 countries / A.D. Lopez [and others].

    | Date: [2002], ©2002
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    Demographic trends in the European region : health and social implications / edited by Alan D. Lopez and Robert L. Cliquet.

    | Date: [1984], ©1984
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    The Brighton life table (based on the mortality of the ten years 1881-90) / by Arthur Newsholme.

    Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943. | Date: 1893
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