Vital statistics of births.

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...

Vital Signs: Repeat Births Among Teens

Background: Teen childbearing has potential negative health, economic, and social consequences for mother and child. Repeat teen childbearing further constrains the mother’s education and employment possibilities. Rates of preterm and low birth weight are higher in teens with a repeat birth, compared with first births. Methods: To assess patterns of repeat childbearing and postpartum contracept...

The Elements of Vital Statistics

Vital Statistics During the War *

The most essential commodity for the prosecution of the war was people-people to fight the war, people to produce war material, and people to whom critical material had to be diverted for the production of essential civilian goods. Thus, it was important to have current knowledge, and in many cases a future picture, of the population, its composition and distribution as well as the forces affec...