Contributions to vital statistics : especially designed to elucidate the rate of mortality, the laws of sickness, and the influences of trade and locality on health, derived from an extensive collection of original data, supplied by Friendly Societies, and proving their too frequent instability / by F.G.P. Neison.

  • F. G. P. Neison
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[1845]
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Credit: Contributions to vital statistics : especially designed to elucidate the rate of mortality, the laws of sickness, and the influences of trade and locality on health, derived from an extensive collection of original data, supplied by Friendly Societies, and proving their too frequent instability / by F.G.P. Neison. 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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    Contributions to Vital Statistics, especially designed to elucidate the Rate of Mortality, the Laws of Sickness, and the Influences of Trade and Locality on Health, derived from an extensive Collection of Original Data, supplied by Friendly Societies, and proving their too frequent Instability. By F. G. P. Neison, Esq., F.S.S., F.L.S., Actuary to the Medical, Invalid, and General Life Office. [Read before the Statistical Society of London, \7th March, 1845.] 1. Duration of Life in England and Wales. The best record of the general mortality in England and Wales is contained in the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General. So far as relates to the number of deaths in the entire community, more com- plete returns could not be hoped for. The Fifth Report of the Registrar-General contains a table of the expectation of life, calculated on the mortality of the year 1841. The census of the population having been taken in that year, offered a ready means to determine the value of life for that period ; but as the results of the mortality for several years would undoubtedly form a broader and more satisfactory basis on which to found a measure of the duration of life in this country, it is proposed to calculate a table on the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports of the Registrar-General; omitting the First Report, that any imperfections incidental to the early management of the Registers may be avoided. It is evidently necessary to ascertain the exact amount of population living at various ages in the country, during the periods of time to which the returns of deaths relate, before results can be obtained, showing the ratio of the population dying at the respective ages. Previous to the population being calculated for the mean time of each period embraced in the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports, it will be necessary to apply a correction to the enumeration of the population at the period of the census. In 1841, the ages of 35,408 males and 11,472 females, or *456 per cent, of the one, and *141 per cent, of the other, were not given. In the registration of deaths, the ages of a certain proportion are also