Vital statistics : a memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr / edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Noel A. Humphreys.

William Farr

Date:: 1885

Credit: Vital statistics : a memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr / edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Noel A. Humphreys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Life iiiul Ainmily 'hML'it—coiUiiineiJ. Do Moivro's liypnthesis, 4()j : nhorL iiiclhoi.1 of coii.striu'tiiifr,4(>S; properties mid implica- tions or; Dr. Price's fiillncios, 46H i Kiiftlisli Nos. I. iiiullt, 479; Northiiinpton, Carlislo, and Exporioncc table, 480; coustniutioii of EukHsIi, Xo. in, 4S3; Koiiernl description of, Hoallliy Distriels. 491; basis and use of Healthy IMstrict tal)le, 493. • Liverpool; increase of mortality at diHerent asros, as compared with tlio dciitli-rates of lifty-threo '• healthy districts (Table), 177; Kreat mortality in, 18O; death-rates per cent., 18()1 70, atdilTerent npos (Tabic), 187 ; mortality of inlanr,s at each month of the first year, 199; (Table), 200; numberand proportion of deaths at dilTerent months of a.^c to one thousand births, ]83i)-4() (Table), 201; deaths luider five years of age from nineteen groups of causes (Table), 204; Lite Table for, 4i;3. l;ocal diseases, classilieation of, 2^4. J,ondon; ponulation. deaths, and mortality at dilTerent auies, 18(11-70 (Table), 123; Popu- lation at various uses, 1851, and actual deaths and death-rates, 181.9-58, compared with tlio probiiblo results had the healthy districts rate of mortality prevailed (Table), 129; water supply, 143; mule and female mortality in, 145 ; mortahty in, illus- trative of excessive in-ban mortnlity, 154 ; mortality in comiiared with Lewisham, i;7 ; area, elevation, and density, 1863, 1S8; in- crease of uiortalitv at different ages, as compared with the death-rates of fifty-three healthy districts (Table), 177; infant mortality in (Tables), i9n-i9<; deaths from small-poxiu each year, lGGl-80 (Table), 214; causes of death in, 1020-183.5, 303; number of deaths hi, from twenty classes of diseases (Table), ',04; cholera epidemic of 1866, 365 ; cholera i'u the several water-fields of in 1866 37S; cholera mortality in distriets of, in relation to their density of population (Table), 3S3 ; Life Table for, 453. Lunatic Asylums; mortality ni, 425; im- proved treatment of patients m, 426 ; mean term of resilience in, 437 ; proportions of in- mates that die and that recover (Table), 4.32. Lying-ui Hospitals, puerperal mortahty 111, :\IacclesfleUl, death-rates in three decades, 136, Malthus; Theory of Population, 13, 18, pg- \Ian- cost, and the present and future ' economic value of, 531; wages of labourer.s in Norfolk (Table), .<34; wages and cost of mainteinnce of agricultural labourers in England (Table), i3| i mow value of (Table), S36; value of future wages (Table), Manchester; excessive mortality of eomparerl with that of Surrey, 1838-«, 1^9; increase of mortality at dilTerent agesns compared with Se death-rates of fifty-three healthy • districts (Table), 177 ; death-rate per cent., 1861-70, at different ages (Table), 1S7; dura- tion of life in, 477; (Table), 478. TVIarks, percental of married women who signed bv, in 1851, in counties (Table), 102; number and proportion per cent, of infor- mants of death, and of persons married, signing by, in 1861. (Table), 227. Marriages ;'inauence upon increase of popu- lation ; number of persons married; pro- portion of population V™?'fA'hi'move marriage, 20, 21, 44; early or late the moic fruitful 23 ; duration of married life, 45 ; elTect ot alteration in the age at, 4S; 'Jm'o- ?neter of prosperity, 08; ,,otlier ca.i.ses o fluctuations in numbers ol, C9; ',\Pcht o proportion of, to the female population, 71. form of as allVctod by commercial pros- critv 72; cIVectof cotton famine iipon 111 Lancas!iir(, 7.?; m successive genemt lon-s 75: sca.sons: ages at, 76; of minors, 77; g.irait''i tcndencVto among widowers f'I ^^'dows. than among bachelors and spiiistors, 80; l religions wor.ship, 81 ; fecundity ol, 93 ; I; portional numbers of married aiid »i >r 'f','/ women in Knglaiid and Scotland, 18..1-(i0 Marriages—contin nil. (Table), 94; as alTectcd by the law of logili-. Illation in Scotland, 95 ; iiillueuce of on the . mortality of the Frciicli jieople. 438. ^ ^Marriage rati!; (sauses of Ihictuatloiis in, 68 in England, 1706-1815, to the female popu- lation (Table) ; and commensal prosperity, 72; depression of by cotton faiiiiiie, 73; sum- mary of lluctiiations of 1830-77, 74; of minors with their previous conjugal condi- tion (Table), 78; of Imchelors, spinsters, widowers, and widows (Table), 79, 80. Mean ago at death, 456; varies according to locality and occupation, 458; erroneous ap- plication of, 472, 475. Mean duration of life, 456 ; deduced from in- complete observations, 463 ; differences between English and Mr. Finlaison's and the Actuaries' Tables (Table), 463; i metrniiolitan districts, 467. Medical prii^titioners ; mortality of, 401. Mercantile Marine; mortality in, 411. SIcrthyr Tydlil; death-rates in three decades, 130, 13S. 3Ietal-workers ; mortality of, 403. ^Meteorology, 416. ?Ietcorological conditions, influence upon health, 413, 414, 415. Metropolitan poHce, sickness among, J11. Midwives, inefficient ciualifications of, 379. Jlilne, Mr., upon life tables, 474. Miners, mortality of, 397, 403, 404. Mortality, effect of chastity upon, 441 ; rate of, and probability of dying, 490; iu increasing populations, 470; methods of determining the relative health and mortality of different classes of population, 471; at various ages from diff'erent diseases, 499. (See also Death- rates). National prosperity; the marriage-rate a barometer of, 68 ; other measures of, 69; as affecting the forms of marriage, 73. Navy, mortality in, 411. Newjiort, death-rates in three decades 136,13S. Nomenclature of English and Welsh families, 545 ; fifty common surnames and the num- bers of tl'ieir occurrences in the registers, 54S. Nomenclature ot diseases (sec Causes of Death). Northampton Lite Tables, old and new, 480. North Witchford, death-rates in three decades. Occupations; as first enumerated, 7 : Census inquirv and classiffcation, 48; double occu- pation's ; industrial Census, 49 ; of the blind, <3 : mortality of various, 392. 394, 398- Odd Fellows, M.U., analysis of sickness returns hi ISW, 503. . , , , Orsett, death-rates in three decades, 130, i37- Peers, mortality of, 393. 394- ^ Phthisis, mortality from, 366, 367, 368,269, 308. Plagues frequent in England before 1665, ijo. Population; scope of enquiry at the fii-st six Censuses, 6-8: principles of, 13; theories of Malthusand Sir J. Steuartconsidered, 14-18; faw of increase, 19-29; inttuence of increases upon the prosperity of the State, 23; how the rate of increase is affected by the mai- viage-rate, 34; practical bearing of the question hi colonising, 36; a fallacy ex- plained; relation to the mean life-time, 37 ; depends upon duration of generations fertility of marriages, change of matrimonial condition, emigration, 28; and upon abun- dance of necessaries of life, 29 ; increase and decrease of. 39; causes of changes in, 31; influence of birth-rates upon, 32: Census and population registers, 33: period in which population doubles itself, 34 ; deusity and proximity, ami method ot calculatnig these, 34-36; Sex proiiortions (with lable), 56-37; effect of prolongation of life upon: factors of, 4o; mean age of: civil or conjugtil condition, 44 ; iiroportion of married of each sex at different ages: effect of marriage upon, 46 ; occupations' of the. 4S-50: inlirmilics of, <;o-<(); economic value of, 59-64 u<i i;,i-7; sige constitution of, 31- 180; males ami females in England in 1841, at gi-oups of ages (Table). iSi; mortahty ui increasing populations, 470.$