Mortality Mechanics Manual

Author : United States Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333626822
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Manual of the International List of Causes of Death written by United States Bureau of the Census and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual of the International List of Causes of Death: Based on the Second Decennial Revision by the International Commission, Paris, July 1 to 3, 1909 No registration office that deals with a considerable number of returns of deaths can present a compilation in which each individual cause will be shown. The number of medical terms employed by physicians is so very great that a table prepared on this basis would be chie y a list of names of diseases. The length of such a list would preclude the presentation of the important statistical relations of the various causes, and the number of deaths returned for the less common terms would be too few to render the results of statistical value. Moreover, many of the terms would be more or less synonymous, and the actual number of deaths from a given disease could be learned only by examining the entire list of terms. A process of condensation or consolidation is therefore necessary in compiling statistics of causes of death. A selected list of titles is prepared, and under each title are arranged the various terms which it is agreed shall be referred thereto in compilation. The Tabular List (pp. 47 to 141) is formed by such an arrangement, and careful examination should be made of it bv the compiler in order to under stand the general character and scope of each of the 189 titles that make up the International List of Causes of Death in its present form. Such a list might have been arranged in any order - for example, the alphabetical. This plan would have the advantage of avoiding the appearance of a theoretical grouping or classification of the, causes of death - a matter with which the International List is very little concerned. On the other hand, it would have the disadvantage of separating widely many causes that are frequently studied together, such as the various acute infective diseases, bronchitis and pneumonia, the puerperal affections, etc. On the whole, therefore, the grouping according to the general classes, and in a conventional order, is more convenient. It is desirable also to print the International List number with the title, as thereby all uncertainty is removed as to the exact inclusion of the title, regardless of the particular language em ployed. The process, then, of classifying causes of death relates only to the assignment of any given cause to the particular title num ber, as shown in the Index for all terms that appear in the Tabular List. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."