Vital Statistics of our Foreign Associates

Interpretation of Vital Statistics

The field of vital statistics is as open to investigation, analysis and experimentation as it was three hundred years ago when John Graunt (1620 -1674) introduced the observations on the London Bills of Mortality. The research possibilities are sometimes overlooked by statisticians and demographers because the registration systems now established in developed countries seem routinized and steri...

Principles of Vital Statistics

rain, m.u. i aie univcrsny, ruuaueipma and London : W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd. 1923. Pp. 258. Price, 12s. 6d. net. This small volume is an essay for the practising physician and health worker rather than a text-book for the public health student. As it deals with American statistical data which are differently recorded from those of England, the book is not adapted for teaching in India or Englan...

The Elements of Vital Statistics

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From Our Foreign Correspondent

Is 'traditional medicine' mumbo-jumbo, as I was given to understand as a doctor's son in then British-run Uganda? Any link the witch-doctors had with modern times was the constant pinching of syringes from Mulago Hospital. They plunged them into their customers with unsterilised needles, I remember overhearing. Victims often ended up being treated in Mulago, occassionally with cattle urine in t...