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Excerpt from Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, Vol. 26: Session 1906-1907
Accordingly, in order to secure a better basis of com parison, I have applied the deaths registered in the several years from 1851 onwards to a standard population of uni form constitution in these respects, the standard adopted being that Of the enumerated population Of England and Wales at the Census of 1901. Whether or not the labour devoted to this task is justified by the results I leave you to judge. For myself, I confess that in their revised form I have greater confidence in comparing the rates of the present with those of the past than I should have had in the absence Of such revision, In attempting to trace through a long series of years the changes of mortality from a widespread and terribly destructive malady like tuberculosis, certain precautions must be Observed.
At the outset, it is necessary to bear in mind that the causes of death were not abstracted in combination with the ages at death until the year 1847.
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