Principles of Vital Statistics
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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 England. It is interesting to find that a very large proportion of the states have not yet come into the federal registration association for births and deaths. Also one reads that the American calculates intercensal populations in terms of arithmetical progression, and the author claims that this is more accurate than the English Registrar General's or logarithmic method of calculating increase by geometrical progression: a statement
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