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... mortality , than a diminished rate of increase . The data , which the more accurate statistics of the French police have of late furnished , and which the careful researches of such writers as Parent Duchatelet , Frégier , Ducpetiaux ...
... mortality , than a diminished rate of increase . The data , which the more accurate statistics of the French police have of late furnished , and which the careful researches of such writers as Parent Duchatelet , Frégier , Ducpetiaux ...
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... mortality is constant . During the twelve years just enumerated , the tables of mortality gave the same proportion of deaths as in 1777 , namely , 1 in 27. ( Quetelet , de Physique Sociale , I. p . 157. ) We have , however , assumed ...
... mortality is constant . During the twelve years just enumerated , the tables of mortality gave the same proportion of deaths as in 1777 , namely , 1 in 27. ( Quetelet , de Physique Sociale , I. p . 157. ) We have , however , assumed ...
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... Mortality in the Encyclopædia Bri- tannica , " that when the population has been increasing , the mean duration of life from birth , according to a table of mortality properly con- structed from the necessary data , will be less than ...
... Mortality in the Encyclopædia Bri- tannica , " that when the population has been increasing , the mean duration of life from birth , according to a table of mortality properly con- structed from the necessary data , will be less than ...
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... mortality for that people has been constructed properly from the necessary data : or , what is more com- mon and more easily effected , merely by the summation of deaths at all ages . In further illustration of the difference between ...
... mortality for that people has been constructed properly from the necessary data : or , what is more com- mon and more easily effected , merely by the summation of deaths at all ages . In further illustration of the difference between ...
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... mortality less , than in a stationary population having the same expectation of life . The cause of this is explained in the Fifth Annual Re- port of the Registrar General , which contains much valuable information on such questions ...
... mortality less , than in a stationary population having the same expectation of life . The cause of this is explained in the Fifth Annual Re- port of the Registrar General , which contains much valuable information on such questions ...
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