Suggestions as to lines for future research : being the substance of the oration delivered at the Hunterian Society of London, February 9th, 1881 / by A.H. Smee.

  • Smee, A. Hutchison (Alfred Hutchison), 1841-1901.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Suggestions as to lines for future research : being the substance of the oration delivered at the Hunterian Society of London, February 9th, 1881 / by A.H. Smee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    to children under one year is excessively high from lung disease, and again a rapid rise takes place after forty-four. Diseases of the digestive organs fall from the first year of life. The lowest mortality is reached at age fourteen, when it rises to eighty-four. Kidney disease falls from birth to age twenty, when a gradual rise takes place. Deaths from violence are pretty evenly distributed until twenty-, five, when a gradual rise takes place. Suicide begins at fifteen and rises steadily to sixty, when a gradual decrease takes place. The deaths among females correspond with those of males, with the following exception :—The deaths among female children of the first year of life are less than among males from zymotic, nervous, and respiratory dis- eases. The mortality from tubercular and scrofulous diseases falls from birth to puberty, when it rises rapidly, and has attained the maximum intensity ■ at age thirty-five, from which point it again rapidly descends. The only other points worthy of remark are the childbed curve, which begins at nineteen, rises rapidly to thirty-five, remains fairly stationary to forty-four, when it terminates abruptly at the end of the child-bearing period, forty-five; ihe suicide and violent death curves are less than those of males at corresponding ages. It occurred to me as to others that further inves- tigation was advisable with regard to the curve for