scholarly journals On the Mortality in certain Hazardous or Unhealthy Occupations, as shown by the Official Statistics

1901 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 337-384
Author(s):  
James J. M'Lauchlan
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
Official Sources

The Supplement to the fifty-fifth annual report of the Registrar-General for England, issued early in 1898, contains a mass of statistical material bearing on the mortality among persons engaged in various occupations, much more important and complete than any previously available. The principal object of the following Paper, is to examine the information therein contained bearing on the mortality in certain hazardous or unhealthy occupations, with a view to obtaining some guidance in fixing the extra premiums which should be charged for insurances on the lives of persons engaged in these occupations. In some cases, the information obtained from the Supplement to the fifty-fifth report has been supplemented from other official sources.For the purpose of comparing the mortality of persons in different occupations, Dr. Tatham, the Superintendent of Statistics at the General Register Office, has, following his predecessor, Dr. Ogle, made use of the method of ‘comparative mortality figures.’

Marriage Data as Indicators of Urban Prosperity

Urban History ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Brown
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Money Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Body ◽  
External Causes ◽  
The One

‘The number of marriages in a nation perhaps fluctuates independently of external causes, but it is a fair deduction from the facts, that the Marriage Returns in England point out periods of prosperity little less distinctly than the funds measure the hopes and fears of the money market. If the one is the barometer of credit, the other is the barometer of prosperity, present in part, but future, expected, anticipated, in still greater part.’ This view was expressed by George Graham, the Registrar-General, in his 8th Annual Report for 1845, published in 1848. He argued that the fluctuatiòns in the marriages of a country expressed the views which the great body of the people took of their prospects in the world and noted that the fluctuation could be clearly seen in the towns even when the variations of the annual marriage totals were not considerable in the kingdom as a whole. D. V. Glass, in his study of marriage frequency and economic fluctuations also found that ‘the whole period, 1856 to 1932, showed a close connection between marriage and prosperity’.

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