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Pulmonary Tuberculosis and the “Curvature of Van Pesch.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

C. Eijkman
C. Eijkman
Affiliation:
professor of Hygiene, University of Utrecht.
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In 1885, the Dutch vital statistician, Prof. Van Pesch1 drew attention to a peculiarity of the curve of death rates at ages which he first noticed in the Netherlands’ statistics of 1870–79 and subsequently again found in the three following decades.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1921 , pp. 363 - 365
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

References

page 363 note 1 Van Peseh, A.J. (1885), Bijdragen van het Statislisch Instituut, No. 3. Haarlem.Google Scholar

page 363 note 2 Its greater prominence in the male mortality curves of countries having compulsory military service has been emphasised by certain military writers, e.g.Google ScholarSchjerning, O. v. (1910), Sanitals statistische Betrachtungen ueber Vold und Heer, Berlin: Hirschwald, pp. 86 et sep. See, however Journ, Ray. Statistical Soc. LXXII. 253.Google Scholar

page 363 note 3 Brownlee, J., Medical Research Council, Special Report Series, No. 18 of 1918 and No.46 of 1920.Google Scholar