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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Cancer Decline in The U.S. (real or or procedural?)- washingtonpost.com 2008

  • Current diagnoses of cancer death-rates suggest a decline has begun.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Cancer Decline in The U.S. (real or or procedural?)- washingtonpost.com 2008

  • This, however, is, to a certain extent, a mistake, as the recent medical statistical returns of our army in India show that in the new barracks, with more careful supervision as regards diet and clothing, the sickness and death-rates are much reduced.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various

  • My remarks, which must necessarily be very brief, will refer to the relations between (1) meteorological phenomena and the bodily functions of man, and (2) between varying meteorological conditions and death-rates from certain diseases.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various

  • In order to indicate more readily how intimately the mortality from diarrhoea depends on temperature, I now lay before you a table showing the mean temperature for ten weeks in summer, of seven cold and hot summers, the temperature of Thames water, and the death-rates of infants under one year per million population of London:

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various

  • The situation must be faced squarely then: if the race is to be improved, it must be by the use of the material already in existence; by endeavor to change the birth-and death-rates so as to alter the relative proportions of the amounts of good and bad germ-plasm in the race.

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

  • This elimination continues for a number of years to be greater among boys than among girls, until in the period of adolescence the death-rates of the two sexes are equal.

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

  • But taken as a whole, it can hardly be supposed that the fecund stocks of Pittsburgh, with their illiteracy, squalor and tuberculosis, their high death-rates, their economic straits, are as good eugenic material as the families that are dying out in the more substantial residence section which their fathers created in the eastern part of the city.

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

  • New Zealand has, according to comparative international statistics, one of the highest death-rates from abortion in the world.

    Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand 1927

  • The average closeness of kinship in each degree now admits of exact definition and of being treated mathematically, like birth - and death-rates, and the other topics with which actuaries are concerned.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

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