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On the effects of Migrations in disturbing Local Rates of Mortality, as exemplified in the Statistics of London and the surrounding country, for the Years 1851–1860

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Thomas A. Welton
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I propose in this paper to deal with a question which has an important bearing upon those calculations as to deathrates, which are now so widely circulated and so generally felt to possess interest.

It has occurred to the Registrar-General, and, as I believe, to other inquirers, to remark that the mortality happening in London is diminished, “because domestic servants, shopwomen and milliners, “who have come from the country, retire when health fails them “to their native air.”

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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , April 1871 , pp. 153 - 186
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1872

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page 154 note * The Districts of Liverpool, West Derby, Birkenhead, Wirral, Prescot, and Ormskirk.

page 162 note * In determining this question I have been obliged to exclude many districts whereof part but not the whole would answer this description: the data being given for entire Registration Districts only.

page 163 note * In all the tables, and throughout the rest of this paper, the rates of mortality shown are averages for the ten years 1851–60 per thousand persons of the age and sex mentioned.

page 168 note * It may also be noted that the London deathrates by phthisis occupy the respective positions of the minimum of the eleven divisions for females, and the maximum for males.

page 168 note † It would be interesting to examine into the rates of mortality by other causes severally, but to do so would involve no little labour. The contrasts would in general be less striking, the female deathrates by all causes except phthisis being as under:—

The Centre is thus (apparently) healthier than the Outer Belt at ages 10–25.

page 176 note * That the tables show a great degree of regularity in the results deduced from the statistics of different places similarly circumstanced, will be apparent on inspection.