The report which I last laid before the Society referred to the fourteen months ending 31st November, 1862. The present report refers to the fourth quarter of 1862 and the year 1863. In subsequent reports it will unquestionably be best, as in the report which I am about to submit to the Society for 1863, to include, for the purpose of ready comparison with the detailed reports of the Registrars...

** Andrew Benito now works at the Bank of England. The views expressed are not those of the Bank. The authors thank Andrew Hildreth and Jonathan Thomas for helpful suggestions. The data employed in this paper were originally collected by the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the University of Essex. Neither the original collectors of the data nor the Data Archive bears any responsi...

A major goal of infectious disease epidemiology is to understand and predict the spread of infections within human populations, with the intention of better informing decisions regarding control and intervention. However, the development of fully mechanistic models of transmission requires a quantitative understanding of social interactions and collective properties of social networks. We perfo...

I R TERRY, D A W GRAN , AND .1 111ERMONTAY L.OR (Depaoritnew of0 KSurgeriv, St Geotrge's Hospitall, Lon1doni) Appropriate intraperitoncal antiproteinase chemotherapy for ANP may include the use of oligopeptide inhibitors of bacterial origin as these agents are capable of inactivating pancreatic proteinases of different specificities in compilex with (xL-maicroglobulin.' We h.lve studied the eft...

The history of geophysics in Australia began with the first European explorers, who were concerned with the measurement of basic geophysical quantities, such as the Earth’s gravitational and magnetic fields (Day, 1966). By the first half of the twentieth century, Australia had been recognised as a possible happy-hunting ground for the new methods of exploration geophysics, as witness the accoun...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe inequalities in all cause premature mortality between and within regions of Great Britain and how these inequalities have changed between 1979 and 1998. DESIGN Retrospective study using routine population and death data aggregated into five year age and sex groups for each of 20 years. SETTING All 459 local authority districts (England and Wales) and local govern...