The use of death-rates as a measure of hygienic conditions / by John Brownlee.

  • Brownlee, John, 1868-1927.
Date:
1922
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    THE USE OF DEATH-HATES AS A MEASURE OF HYGIENIC CONDITIONS BY John Brownlee, M.D., D.Sc., Director of Statistics, Medical Research Council. CONTENTS PAGE I. Introduction .......... 5 9 PART I. DEATH-RATES IN GENERAL II. Crude Death-rates ......... 7 III. Standardized Death-rates ....... 10 IV. Life Table Death-rates . . . . . . . .13 V, Methods suggested by Farr and Pearson . . . . .16 VI. Comparison of Death-rates at Different Ages . . . .17 VII. The Connexion between Life Table and Standardized Death- rates . . . . . . . . . , . 28 VIII. The Choice of a Standard Population . . . . . 34 IX. Farr’s Law. Relation of Density to Death-rate ... 38 X. Fitting the Life Table Death-rates to the Formula a(c-x)~11 . 42 XI. Comparison of Life as found in various Life Tables ... 45 XII. Effect of Environment on Length of Life .... 49 XIII. Phthisis.51 XIV. Sarcoma and Cancer.56 XV. Valvular Disease of the Heart ...... 62 XVI. Diabetes.62 XVII. Nephritis.63 XVIII. Pneumonia as defined by the Registrar-General ... 63 XIX. General Survey . . . . . . . . . 65 PART II. MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT XX. Introduction.. . . .66 XXI. Mathematical Theory . . . -.66 XXII. On the Calculation of Life Table Death-rates and Expecta¬ tions ........... 68 XXIII. On Graduation of the Life Table Death-rates and Expecta¬ tions .68 XXIV. Construction of a Life Table from the Graduated Expectations or Life Table Death-rates ....... 70 XXV. The Calculation of Life Tables by other Short Methods . 74 XXVI. Dr, Snow’s Method of Calculating Life Tables ... 76 XXVII. Analysis of Phthisis Death-rate.77 References .......... 79 (6965). Ps. 6145. Wt. 1349-315/952. 1500. 1/22. O.U.P. A 2