Contributions to vital statistics : being a development of the rate of mortality and the laws of sickness; from original and extensive data procured from friendly societies; showing the instability of friendly societies, "Odd Fellows," "Rechabites, " &c.; with an inquiry into the influence of locality on health / by F.G.P. Neison.

  • Neison, F. G. P. (Francis Gustavus Paulus)
Date:
1846
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Credit: Contributions to vital statistics : being a development of the rate of mortality and the laws of sickness; from original and extensive data procured from friendly societies; showing the instability of friendly societies, "Odd Fellows," "Rechabites, " &c.; with an inquiry into the influence of locality on health / by F.G.P. Neison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DURATION OF LIFE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. The best record of the General Mortality in England and Wales is contained in the Annual Reports of the Registrar General. So far as relates to the number of deaths in the entire community, more complete returns could not be hoped for. The 5th Report of the Registrar General contains a table of the Expectation of Life, calculated on the mortality of the year 1841. The census of the population having been taken in that year, offered a ready means to determine the value of life for that period ; but as the results of the mortality for several years would undoubtedly form a broader and more satisfactory basis on which to found a measure of the duration of life in this country, it is proposed to calculate a table on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Reports of the Registrar General; omitting the 1st Report, that any imperfections incidental to the early manage- ment of the Registers may be avoided. It is evidently necessary to ascertain the exact amount of population living at various ages in the country, during the periods of time to which the returns of deaths relate, before results can be obtained, shomng the ratio of the population dying at the respective ages. Previous to the population being calculated for the mean time of each period embraced in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Reports, it will be necessary to apply a correction to the enumeration of the population at the period of the Census. In 1841, the ages of 35,408 males and 11,472 females, or -456 per cent, of the one, and 141 per cent, of the other, were not given. In the registration of deaths, the ages of a certain proportion are also omitted; and if the ratio were the same in both cases, those whose ages were not specified might be left out, as the omission of the one would be corrected by the omission of the other ; but it happens that, in the returns of deaths over the entire four years referred to, the number of males whose ages were not specified was only 1,650, or -235 per cent, of the whole; and of females 896, or only 132 B %