The influence of the age of parents on the vitality of their children / by Joseph Korösi.

  • József Kőrösy
Date:
1891
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Credit: The influence of the age of parents on the vitality of their children / by Joseph Korösi. 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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    The aim of the present demological essay is, to inves- tigate whether the age of parents is of any infkience upon the vitahty of chikiren and in the affirmative case, to find the statistical measure of this influence. The basis of this investigations is furnished by the data upon the age of parents, who have lost chikiren below the age of ten, which data since many years I have caused to be noted at Budapest. The results I shah have the honomour to submit are drawn from the observations on the cause of death of 41).(S18 children. With regard to the tendency of tlie projjosed investiga- tions, whe may grou]j the cause of death of children in two classes: l-o such as where the germ of disease has already been acquired in the womb, and secondly where the death bas been produced by a cause accjuired only during the course of life. We may design the former as the uterine and the latter as the extrauterine causes of death. I have classed into tlie uterine group all cases of weak constitution, viz : the inborn debility, the atrophia and inanitio, also the prematurely l)orn children deceased shortly after their birth, who, so to say, represent only a special kind of inborn de- bility. Besides these cases of weak constitution, attention has been paid also to the deaths caused by tuberculosis of lungs, hydrocephalus, rachitis and scrophulosis. 1*
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