On fluctuations in the death rate, with a glance at the causes : having especial reference to the supposed influence of the cotton famine on recent mortality / by Daniel Noble.
- Daniel Noble
- Date:
- 1863
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Credit: On fluctuations in the death rate, with a glance at the causes : having especial reference to the supposed influence of the cotton famine on recent mortality / by Daniel Noble. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MANCHESTER STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Fluctuations in the Death Rate. By Daniel Noble, M.A., M.D. [Read October 26th, 1863.] Whilst in a given population, having a certain continued uniformity in its social condition, births take place with a degree of regularity from year to year, and even from quarter to quarter, the occurrence of deaths is subject to fluctuation from various causes; and these produce high and low rates of mortality in particular seasons, under circumstances seeming to show some sort of system, as it were, if the results afforded by a sufficiently extended series of years be regarded. And so, of course, it becomes important, before seeking to determine the special causes of an unwonted death rate at any time, that we should be acquainted with all that experience has revealed on the general question. These remarks have been suggested by the fact that of late the disposition has been very generally manifested, to attribute every accidental elevation or depression in the death rate, occurring in any part of these districts of the cotton manufacture, to the distress which the diminished supplies of the raw material have caused to fall upon many of our working population. This disposition has found ex- pression in various societies, and in the public press; and the most diverse theories have been invented, to explain supposed relations between an ascertained elevation, or depression, of the mortality in particular localities, and the reduced employment therein prevalent. If there has been a high death rate anywhere, in some particular quarter of the year, it has been suggested, or almost taken for granted, that the cause must be sought for in the distress; if, on the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22272070_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
