This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...stones of our modern structure of vital statistics. Without uniform definitions of disease which furnish us with adequate statistical units our statistics would be worthless. It is because of changes in our definitions of disease that we fall into so many errors in comparing past conditions with those of the present ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...stones of our modern structure of vital statistics. Without uniform definitions of disease which furnish us with adequate statistical units our statistics would be worthless. It is because of changes in our definitions of disease that we fall into so many errors in comparing past conditions with those of the present day. Such changes are inevitable as medical science advances, but they ought to be universally recognized when they are made. Dr. William Farr was one of the first to recognize the importance of "statistical nosology." History of nosography.--Nosography emerged from its former chaotic condition in 1893 when the use of the International Classification of Diseases and Causes of Death was begun. This was due chiefly to the labors of Dr. Jacques Bertillon of France. In 1853 Dr. William Farr and Dr. Marc d'Espine, of Geneva, had been selected by the First Statistical Congress, which met at Brussels, to present a report on the subject. The list of diseases reported by them was adopted in Paris in 1855, in Vienna in 1857, and was translated into six languages. It was revised several times between 1864 and 1886. In 1893 the International Statistical Institute, the successor of the Statistical Congress, met in Chicago and adopted this list with some changes. Provision was made for decennial revisions by an International Commission, and such revisions were made in Paris in 1900 and again in 1909, the latter a year earlier in order that the new list might be used in the censuses of 1910. The present list is intended to stand unchanged until 1919. In 1898 the International List was endorsed by the American Public Health Association. England adopted the list in 1911. It is used by all English and Spanish speaking countries, but it is not yet univer...
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