Expectations of Life: A Study in the Demography, Statistics, and History of World Mortality

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Mortality and the Evolution of Society....Pages 1-11
Identification and Classification of Diseases....Pages 12-23
Measurement of Mortality....Pages 24-37
Dynamics of Population Growth....Pages 38-50
Infectious Diseases....Pages 51-65
Intestinal Infectious Diseases....Pages 66-80
Tuberculosis....Pages 81-96
Zoonotic Bacterial Diseases....Pages 97-106
Other Bacterial Diseases....Pages 107-120
Diseases due to Viruses and Chlamydias....Pages 121-131
Viral Diseases Accompanied by Exanthem....Pages 132-148
Arthropod-borne Viral Diseases....Pages 149-155
Miscellaneous Diseases due to Viruses and Chlamydias....Pages 156-159
Rickettsioses....Pages 160-164
Malaria....Pages 165-178
Other Arthropod-borne Diseases....Pages 179-185
Syphilis and Other Venereal Diseases....Pages 186-190
Other Spirochetal Diseases and the Mycoses....Pages 191-192
Helminthiases....Pages 193-202
Neoplastic Diseases....Pages 203-222
Endocrine Diseases....Pages 223-226
Food, Malnutrition, Avitaminoses, and Famine....Pages 227-243
Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs....Pages 244-246
Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System....Pages 247-251
Cardiovascular Diseases....Pages 252-265
Respiratory Diseases....Pages 266-271
Digestive Diseases....Pages 272-277
Genitourinary Diseases....Pages 278-279
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium....Pages 280-290
Diseases of the Skin and Supporting Tissue....Pages 291-292
Congenital Anomalies and Human Genetics....Pages 293-298
Perinatal and Infant Mortality....Pages 299-313
War....Pages 314-340
Injury and Poisoning....Pages 341-353
Child and Early Adult Mortality....Pages 354-362
Mortality by Age and Sex: The Adult Ages....Pages 363-373
The British Isles....Pages 374-387
Continental Europe....Pages 388-395
Norden....Pages 396-409
Asia....Pages 410-413
Oceania....Pages 414-424
America: Beginnings and Development....Pages 425-435
Latin America....Pages 436-441
Africa....Pages 442-452
The Role of Therapy in the Decline of Mortality....Pages 453-476
Hygiene and Ecology....Pages 477-485
Subpopulations and Classes....Pages 486-496
Changes in Mortality by Disease....Pages 497-502
Epilogue....Pages 503-504
Back Matter....Pages 505-605