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accuracy accurate acute nephritis age distribution Age period Area for Births AREA FOR DEATHS birth-rate born Bright's disease causes of death causes of sickness Census Bureau cent Cerebral hemorrhage chapter compared crude death-rate DEATH RATE Death-rate per 1000 deaths per 1000 decline Diarrhea diphtheria disability error facts fatality rate figures foreign FOREIGN-BORN WHITE higher important increase indicated infant deaths infant mortality influenza Insurance Company measles method Metropolitan Life Insurance miliary tuberculosis months morbidity morbidity rate mortality statistics mothers native-born negroes nephritis number of deaths nursing association obtained occupation occur Percentage physical defects physician pneumonia Premature birth preventable principal causes proportion Public Health Nurse pulmonary pulmonary tuberculosis race ratio Raymond Pearl Registration Area specific death-rates standard statistical sample statistician still-births taken tion tonsils total number typhoid fever ulation UNITED STATES REGISTRATION urban and rural vital statistics white persons whole population workers York City
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Page 184 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Page 144 - My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 184 - Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, — Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Page 106 - ... form of record for the permanent files of the local health office. On each report thus forwarded the local health officer shall state whether the case to which the report pertains was visited or otherwise investigated by a representative of the local health .office and whether measures were taken to prevent the spread of the disease or the occurrence of additional cases.
Page 151 - That no sexton or person in charge of any premises in which interments are made shall inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any body unless it is accompanied by a burial, removal or transit permit, as herein provided.
Page 103 - Bacillary. Favus. German measles. Glanders. Hookworm disease. Leprosy. Malaria. Measles. Meningitis: (a) Epidemic cerebrospinal. (b) Tuberculous. Mumps. Ophthalmia neonatorum (conjunctivitis of newborn infants). Paragonimiasis (endemic hemoptysis). Paratyphoid fever. Plague. Pneumonia (acute). Poliomyelitis (acute infectious). Rabies. Rocky Mountain spotted or tick fever.
Page 220 - Be careful to weigh and record all the possible causes of an event, and do not attribute to one what is really the result of the combination of several. IV. Never compare data which have nothing in common.
Page 247 - CEA — (I.) Experiments on the Effect of Freezing and other low Temperatures upon the Viability of the Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, with Considerations regarding Ice as a Vehicle of Infectious Disease. (II.) Statistical Studies on the Seasonal Prevalence of Typhoid Fever in various Countries and its Relation to Seasonal Temperature, pp.
Page 72 - Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare. If babies were well born and well cared for, their mortality would be negligible. The infant...
Page 151 - That in case of any death occurring without medical attendance, it shall be the duty of the undertaker to notify the local...