‘A confession of ignorance’: deaths from old age and deciphering cause-of-death statistics in Scotland, 1855–1949
A large amount of the research undertaken in an attempt to discover the reasons underlying the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mortality decline in Britain has relied on the statistics published by the Registrars General. The processes by which individual causes of death are recorded an...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2015
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738191/ |