Statistics of mortality from pulmonary phthisis in the United States and in Europe : compiled from official health reports and from data obtained from life insurance companies / by Wm. Gleitsmann.

  • Gleitsmann, William, 1840-1914
Date:
1875
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Credit: Statistics of mortality from pulmonary phthisis in the United States and in Europe : compiled from official health reports and from data obtained from life insurance companies / by Wm. Gleitsmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    In a variety of absolute numbers we observe a remark- able concurrence of the preponderance of the female sex, in a comparison of deaths from Phthisis with total mor- tality. London alone is an exception ; whereas the U. S. Census on the contrary shows a larger female mortality, compared with the total population. If in addition we take for the actually somewhat lower female population the same number as for the male, we would under conditions then similar have 36,732 female deaths, or a surplus of 2,761 over the male. The preponderance of female mor- tality is shown even more strikingly in the following table, to which I refer for comparison. But this is not the case in all countries, as for instance the statistics of the King- dom of Bavaria present a larger mortality amongst males than females, and according to Oesterlein the same status has prevailed in Geneva within a space of thirteen years.' We observe, moreover, in the eight instances, that amongst deaths from all causes the numbers of males ex- ceed those of the females. TABLE III. Since, with the exception of the New York report for 1872, none other gives sex and age at the same time, nor yet a classification of ages from 5 to 5 years, I have con- structed the following table upon the U. S. Census, which furnishes them to completeness. The question of deciding which is the most dangerous age for either sex, was of suf- ficient interest to strive for the most reliable inferences by calculations with large numbers. I have made an excep- tion in the last two columns by confining myself to one decimal, as this does not interfere with the result.
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