A study in gout of the incidence of diagnosis from 1971 to 1975 and of the prevalence at 31 December 1975 was carried out in a representative general practice sample comprising 64 practices and a population numbering 1 in 145 of the total population of Great Britain. The results show an annual incidence in Great Britain from 1971 to 1975 varying from 0.25 to 0.35 per 1000 and an overall prevale...

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and Fritsch for Germany, the relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been...

While the origins of child psychiatry in Britain can be traced to the interwar period, contemporary concepts and methodological approaches to pathological mental development in children were not created until the 1950s and 1960s. It was at this time that one of the most salient and lasting diagnoses in child psychiatry, autism, was established through a network of intellectual, institutional, a...

During the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher transformed the political and economic agenda of Great Britain. Emphasizing the traditional values of economic liberalism, Thatcher limited the role of the state in the economy and reduced the influence of trade unions. Privatizing many of its nationalized industries, the British Government sold off most of its shares in numerous industries, including British...

This article presents and analyses injury incidence rates for amateur and professional racing jockeys in Ireland, France and Britain by means of a retrospective study and review of published data. Amateur jump racing was seen to have the highest fall risk in these three countries (between 115 and 140 falls/1000 rides). Jump racing also had the highest rates of injury/ride amongst both amateur a...

Cohabitation is sometimes thought of as being inversely associated with education, but in Britain a more complex picture emerges. Educational group differences in cohabitation vary by age, time period, cohort, and indicator used. Well-educated women pioneered cohabitation in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. In the most recent cohorts, however, the less educated have exceeded the best educated in...

The Islands of East Melanesia have a unique and highly endemic frog fauna derived entirely from overseas colonisation events. Within New Britain is notable centre diversity endemism, with at least 15 species, mostly in the ceratobatrachid genus Cornufer . Here we describe first pelodryadid treefrog Britain. new species member Litoria thesaurensis group but can be distinguished near relatives by...

This paper develops an improved method for estimating the ethnicity of individuals based on individual level pairings given and family names. It builds upon previous research by using a global database names from c. 1.7 billion living individuals, supplemented historical census data. In focusing Great Britain, these resources enable, respectively, greater precision in probable origins better es...

The first confirmed case of cholera in Britain occurred in September 1831 when William Sproat of Sunderland contracted the disease. Over the next 30 years or so, Britain was invaded by four of the pandemics of cholera that had spread from Bengal since the early 19th century and suffered epidemics in 1831–1832, 1848–1849, 1853–1854 and 1866. Cholera was not as persistent or as frequent in its at...

Avian pox is a viral disease with a wide host range. In Great Britain, avian pox in birds of the Paridae family was first diagnosed in a great tit (Parus major) from south-east England in 2006. An increasing number of avian pox incidents in Paridae have been reported each year since, indicative of an emergent infection. Here, we utilise a database of opportunistic reports of garden bird mortali...