1767 SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad, according to the different soils, situations, business of life, use of the non-naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above three hundred vouchers, and many of them for a long course of years, in two different Periods. To which is added a syllabus of the general States of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15834
1839 FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
In 1836 the Births and Deaths Registration Act was passed in England with provisions for inquiry into causes of death in the population, and registration began during the following year through the General Registratio…
GMN 12127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14336
1869 ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
The nomenclature of diseases drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. (Subject to decennial revision).
"The first authoritative source of disease terminology, with the names in English, Latin, French, German and Italian. Standardization of disease terminology was necessary for accurate recording and study of mortality,…
GMN 12126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14335
1922 PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940)
The biology of death.
Raymond Pearl did important work on the subject of vital statistics.
GMN 137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2250
2009 WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011)
Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
GMN 12021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14229
2009 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – ); MCCOY, Robert R.
Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.
"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…
GMN 12095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14304
2017 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
GMN 12372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14597
2018 CILEK, Laura; CHOWELL, Gerardo; FARIÑAS, Diego Ramiro
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
GMN 12103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14312
