Mortality Sentence Examples

There are numerous venomous serpents, but the mortality from snake-bite is low.

In Italy the annual mortality from this cause averages 15,000, which is estimated.

He had no sense of his own mortality and fighting skill that rivaled Xander's.

The climbing of ladders from deep mines not only lessens the efficiency of the men by reason of fatigue, but often tends to increase the mortality from diseases of the heart.

The mortality exceeds the birth-rate.

The history of the Bills of Mortality which in the early years were intermittent in their publication is of much interest, and Dr Creighton has stated it with great clearness.

In Stockholm there was a mortality of 40,000.

The mortality rate for COA infants is about 5 percent.

The mortality rapidly rose from 43 in May to 590 in June, 6137 in July, 17,036 in August, 31,159 in September, after which it began to decline.

He'd never thought twice of his mortality-- he had none.

I'd put my money on him, only because he's got no sense of his mortality.

The hygienic improvement effected by these changes, and by a new and excellent water supply, is shown by the mortality averages-40 4 per thousand in 1871-1875,30.4 per thousand in 1881-1885, and 20.5 per thousand in 1903-1904.

Nevertheless the epidemic spread in the next few years over Spain and Germany, and a little later to Holland, where Amsterdam in1663-1664was again ravaged with a mortality given as 50,000, also Rotterdam and Haarlem.

It occurred in a scattered population, and the mortality was not absolutely large.'

Children living in inner cities, low-income populations, and minorities have disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality due to asthma.

In Sydney there was 303 cases, with 103 deaths, a case mortality of 34%.

The case mortality still remains exceedingly high.

Brady's chest had tightened at Dan's words, and he felt fear for the first time since he was a kid in basic training and had his first brush with his own mortality.

The events of this summer had made him acutely aware of mortality, but it had brought on another realization as well.

Craignethan Castle on the Nethan, a left-hand tributary joining the Clyde at Crossford, is said to be the original of the "Tillietudlem" of Scott's Old Mortality.

The great mortality, especially among the children, is one of the causes of this, the birthrate being also lower than in Russia.

Further the area of the metropolis for local government purposes was for the first time defined, being the same as that adopted in the Commissioners of Sewers Act, which had been taken from the area of the weekly bills of mortality.

The English epidemic was widely spread and lasted till 1647, in which year, the mortality amounting to 3597, we have the fifth epidemic in London.

The total number of deaths from plague in that year, according to the bills of mortality, was 68,596, in a population estimated at 460,000, 3 out of whom two-thirds are supposed to have fled to escape the contagion.

In December there was a sudden fall in the mortality which continued through the winter; but in 1666 nearly 2000 deaths from plague are recorded.

After 1666 there was no epidemic of plague in London or any part of England, though sporadic cases appear in bills of mortality up to 1679; and a column filled up with " o " was left till 1703, when it finally disappeared.

Dresden was affected in 1680, Magdeburg and Halle in 1682 - in the latter town with a mortality of 4397 out of a population of about 10,000.

At the same time the plague spread westward from the Danube to Transylvania and Styria, and (1713) appeared in Austria and Bohemia, causing great mortality in Vienna.

From the scantiness of population the mortality was not great, but it became clear that this is one of the endemic seats of plague.'

In 1877 plague also occurred at Shuster in south-west Persia, probably conveyed by pilgrims returning from Irak, and caused great mortality.

The most noteworthy details available are as follows, taken from the plague mortality returns published June 1908.

In the Punjab from 179 deaths in 1897 the mortality reached a maximum of 334,897 in 1905, in Agra and Oudh they rose from 72 in 1897 to 383,802 in 1905, and in Madras Presidency from 1658 in 1899 to 20,125 in 1904.

The most striking figures, however, are those for Bombay and Bengal which are given below, as well as the total mortality in India.

Outside China and India plague has caused no great mortality in any of the countries in which it has appeared, with the exception perhaps of Arabia, about which very little is known.

Although at one time a common disease in Great Britain, dysentery is now very rarely met with there, and is for the most part confined to warm countries, where it is the cause of a large amount of mortality.

But mortality in home aquaria is quite high because many aquarists fail to ensure that they get enough to eat.

The number of cases recorded in a population of 150,000 was 310, with 114 deaths, representing a case mortality of 36.7%.

The results in India obtained by British and various foreign observers were uniformly unfavourable, and the verdict of the Research Committee (1900) was that the serum had " failed to influence favourably the mortality among those attacked."

From one place after another a great mortality among rats was reported, and the broad fact that they do die of plague is incontestable.

Mortality among rats is said to precede the appearance of human plague, but the evidence of this is always retrospective and of a very loose character.

Similarly, at Oporto, personal connexion was traced in all the earlier cases; there was no mortality among rats, and no evidence to connect them with the outbreak (Jorge).

At Daman the mortality was - inoculated 1-6%, uninoculated 24.6%; at Dharwar, inoculated 1.2%, uninoculated 5.2%.

As the mortality amongst boys, especially during the first year, is considerably above that of the other sex, numerical equilibrium between the two is established in early youth, and in most cases girls outnumber boys, except for a few years between twelve and sixteen.

Then follows the chequered period of the prime of life and middle age, during which the liability of men to industrial accidents, war and other causes of special mortality, irrespective of their greater inclination to emigrate, is generally sufficient to outweigh the dangers of childbirth or premature decay among the women, who tend, accordingly, to predominate in number at this stage.

The distribution of a population amongst the different periods of life is regulated, in normal circumstances, by the birth-rate, and, as the mortality at some of the periods is far greater than at others, the death-rate falls indirectly under the same influence.

Then, again, the former are voluntary acts, entirely under the control of the individual; but mortality, though not beyond human regulation, is far less subject to it, and in order to have substantial results the control must be the outcome of collective rather than individual co-operation.

The course of the marriage and birth-rates, set forth above, affords evidence that the control over both has been exercised of recent years to an unprecedented extent, and it will appear from what is stated below, that partly owing to this cause, partly, also, to improved hygienic conditions in western life, there has been an even more pronounced decline in the rate of mortality.

Where, however, the tendency to mortality, not its results, is in question, both the above factors must be taken into account, as they have been above in distinguishing the rate of fertility from that of births.

In the first place, sex must be distinguished, because, from infancy upwards, except between the ages of ro and 20, the mortality amongst females is considerably less than amongst the other sex, and appears, too, to be declining more rapidly.

Thus, all other considerations being set aside, mortality tends to vary inversely with the proportion of the population at the healthy period 5 to 25.

As the replenishment of this group depends upon the conditions prevailing at the earlier ages, it is to the mortality in childhood that most weight, from the standpoint of hygiene, must be attached.

The greater part of this is debitable, as just pointed out, to the first year, in which the mortality, calculated upon the number of births, ranged, in the decennium 1895-1904, between 70 per mille, in the exceptionally favourable circumstances of the Australasian States, to nearly 270 in European Russia.

Infantile mortality is higher, too, in urban tracts, especially those associated with manufacturing industries.

The difference in the rates for the various countries must not be taken as a measure of difference in mortality, since, as according to the table, much of it is ascribable to difference in ageconstitution.

At the same time, where the range is very wide, as between the rates in Scandinavia and Australia, and those in southern and eastern Europe, the variation, to a great extent, cannot be accounted for otherwise than by difference in hygienic conditions, more especially in the light thrown by the figures of infantile mortality in the second part of the table.

The decline in mortality has been much greater than that in the crude birth-rate everywhere except in France, Australia, and, of course, Ireland; and it is only in the two former that it has been exceeded by that in the fertilityrate.

The standard mortality of each community is deduced from a life-table, representing a "generation" of people assumed to be born at the same moment and followed throughout their hypothetical life, in the light of the distribution by age ascertained.

A high birth-rate is accompanied by high mortality; conversely, when one is low, so is the other.

If the supply be diminished, the narrower field open to the risks of infancy has the immediate effect of further decreasing the mortality.

It may be inferred from the above that a high birthrate does not imply a high rate of increase of population, any more than does a decreasing mortality, but the two rates must be considered in their relations to each other.

Sweden falls below its geographical neighbours owing to its low birth-rate, and Finland because of its higher mortality.

The latter, with the same mortality as Germany, stands far below it for the above reason, as Ireland is raised by its lower deathrate above the prolific countries of eastern Europe.

The excessive mortality of European troops in India, and the delicacy of the children of European parents, do not affect the real question of acclimatization under proper conditions.

Few immigrants enter the country, but the birth-rate is about 30 per 1000, while the mortality is only about 20 per 1000.

The mortality is highest among male children, and the normal excess of females is in the proportion of 109 to loo.

It is recognized that the great fertility of fishes is nature's provision to meet a high mortality - greater in sea-fishes with minute pelagic eggs than in fresh-water fishes with larger-yolked eggs, partly because of the greater risks of marine pelagic life, and partly because of the greater delicacy of marine larvae at the time of hatching.

Artificially propagated eggs and fry after planting must submit to the same mortality as the other eggs and fry around them.

There is a high rate of mortality among the natives, due to unsanitary habits and diet, and not to the climate.

The plague returned in 1899 and caused a heavy mortality during the early months of the following year; but the population was not demoralized, nor was trade interfered with.

A legend relates how one-fourth of the European inhabitants perished in twelve months, and during seventy years the mortality was so great that the name of Calcutta, derived from the village of Kalikata, was identified by mariners with Golgotha, the place of a skull.

This excess of male births, which is usual, has been ascertained to find its equilibrium, through a higher rate of infant mortality among the males, about the tenth year of life, and is finally changed by perilous male occupations and other causes, including the stronger tendency of males to emigration.

Children dying within the month were called chrisom-children " or " chrisoms," and up to 1726 such entries occur in bills of mortality.

In addition to the actual mortality it inflicted, the plague caused an exodus of the population from the island, disorganized the labour at the docks and in the mills, and swallowed up large sums which were spent by the municipality on plague operations and sanitary improvements.

A few districts in Gujarat almost entirely escaped; but the mortality was very heavy in Satara, Thana, Surat, Poona, Kolaba, and in the native states of Cutch, Baroda, Kolhapur and Palanpur.

Famine, mortality and emigration left their mark on Ireland.

Subsequent epidemics have not been attended by anything like this mortality, but there has, however, been a steady decrease, principally among young children, owing to whooping-cough, tuberculosis and croup. Every Fijian child seems to contract yaws at some time in its life, a mistaken notion existing on the part of the parents that it strengthens the child's physique.

The only unsatisfactory points are the great number of illegitimate births, and the high infant mortality.

In 1g06 the islanders passed through a period of distress owing to great mortality among the cattle and the almost total failure of the potato crop. The majority again refused, however, to desert the island, though offered allotments of land in Cape Colony.

The rate of mortality among the natives from tropical diseases is also high, one of the most fatal being that known as sleeping sickness.

He claims to have shown that the dogmas of the eternity of matter and the permanence of the world are false; that their description of the Deity as the demiurgos is unspiritual; that they fail to prove the existence, the unity, the simplicity, the incorporeality or the knowledge (both of species and accidents) of God; that their ascription of souls to the celestial spheres is unproved; that their theory of causation, which attributes effects to the very natures of the causes, is false, for that all actions and events are to be ascribed to the Deity; and, finally, that they cannot establish the spirituality of the soul, nor prove its mortality.

Trotter, went up to Egga (Egam), but was forced to return owing to sickness and mortality.

The British Levant (Turkey) Company maintained an agency and factory here for 200 years, till 1825, in spite of appalling mortality among its employes.

But the death-rate is still high, due partly to the swampy nature of the outskirts of the city proper, and still more to the mortality among Hindu immigrants from the Madras presidency.

The events of the last few months had made him acutely aware of mortality – specifically his and hers.

Mortality had been uppermost on his mind during the flight back – first his own and then Carmen's.

Early mortality was lower in elective admissions (0.5 %) than in emergency admissions (2.4% ).

Model B, looked at the mortality for emergency admissions only.

There is no means to prevent amebiasis, a disease that ia a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality.

The on-table mortality is about 1% compared with about 25% for a leaking aneurysm.

We still have no idea whether or not rescue angioplasty reduces mortality.

Despite clear evidence of their effectiveness in reducing mortality some clinicians have been reluctant to prescribe beta blockers for fear of inducing bronchoconstriction.

Low serum total cholesterol is associated with marked increase in mortality in advanced heart failure.

It may only require a loop colostomy or dividing adhesions, but surgery can have a significant mortality and morbidity.

Studies had also to give information on total cardiovascular events, myocardial infarction, stroke, bleeding complications, and all cause mortality.

The present value will use the Company's best estimates of future expense, tax, mortality and other decrements.

Their character is due to their lineal descent from Graunt's Observations upon the Bills of Mortality of London.

In summary, despite their more favorable position with respect to socioeconomic determinants of health, males have higher mortality rates.

Dear Dr. Hackenbush, I am a graduate student at the University of Michigan interested in geographic mortality differentials in Scotland.

The mortality rate of the Chindits was spectacular, but that bred its own unique esprit de corps among the survivors.

Mortality decreased with increasing duration of use and was lower among current users than among women who used estrogens only in the distant past.

What do such hopes tell us about our attitudes to mortality and our attitudes to human finitude?

Juvenile fish such as coarse fish fry small enough to pass through the screen will pass through the turbine with minimal effect on mortality.

And Neil Young, tho he has had a recent brush with mortality, no longer appears frail, but robust and hearty.

This index measures mortality rate, male life expectancy and female illiteracy.

The difficult subject of child mortality and attitudes to it are discussed, using evidence that is inevitably incomplete.

Overall benefit is only achieved when perioperative morbidity and mortality is less than 3% .

Children between 0 to five and pregnant women are population groups at highest risk for malaria morbidity and mortality.

The target is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters.

This study was designed to assess whether prophylactic surgery decreased the long-term mortality for small aneurysms.

Home births in England and Wales perinatal mortality according to intended place of delivery.

The outcome measure of interest was mortality, which was reported as all-cause mortality in most trials and sudden cardiac death in some trials.

The impact of HIV/AIDS is expected to more than double the burden of premature mortality by the year 2010.

Figure 2.2 shows the infant, perinatal and neonatal mortality in Lothian, year on year, since 1992.

In 1901 infant mortality was 142 deaths per 1000 live births.

West Hertfordshire has a colorectal cancer mortality rate in the under 75 year olds that is lower than the average for England.

There are no accurate figures on calf mortality rates available.

Cardiovascular disease remains the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in most of the Western world and in Scotland in particular.

Statistical analysis multivariate analyzes were done by Poisson regression with mortality as the dependent variable.

Research My research focus is on capsulated bacterial pathogens that colonize the nasopharynx and even with optimal antibiotic therapy cause mortality.

The term net refers to net of reinsurance and the subscript refers to the policies that give rise to (say) mortality risk.

Readers are introduced to behavior aspects of reproduction, such as how to detect oestrus and how to minimize neonatal mortality.

Acute signs are typically accompanied by a rapid onset of heavy mortality.

Moreover, mortality data show an increased rate of cancers for the digestive organs in the Department.

Therefore, despite reducing piglet birth weight, offering sows salmon oil reduced pre-weaning mortality of piglet birth weight, offering sows salmon oil reduced pre-weaning mortality of piglets.

Mortality rates in patients aged less than 65 years with a primary diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia.

It poses a particular dilemma for a species already predisposed to enter a state of denial about personal mortality.

Figure 4 show the relationship between observed three-year mortality and statin prescription for the age group 75-80 years.

The mortality and morbidity associated with umbilical cord prolapse.

Results In the lowest quintile total mortality was 41 %, compared with 25-28% across other quintiles.

The infant mortality rate had stood at 121 per 1,000 live births.

Confidence intervals are shown only on the graphs of standardized mortality ratios for deaths in the local areas.

Women who had used estrogen replacement therapy had a reduced mortality from all categories of acute and chronic arteriosclerotic disease and cerebrovascular disease.

Preclinical development is much higher than for efforts in cardiovascular disease, although the latter has a higher impact on mortality statistics.

Deaths due to congenital abnormalities and antepartum stillbirths were excluded from the mortality rates.

What are the mortality rates for ischaemic stroke in the East Midlands?

For the developing world tetanus is a major challenge with a high mortality among all age groups.

Most alarming would be a situation in which person-to-person transmission resulted in successive generations of severe disease with high mortality.

Uses For active immunization of chickens to reduce mortality and infection caused by Salmonella gallinarum (fowl typhoid) and Salmonella enteritidis.

The mortality associated with an acutely obstructed volvulus may be up to 50% .

Factors associated with mortality and morbidity in small intestinal volvulus in the horse.

The ghastly roll of infantile mortality was quickly purged of its darkest features (Ballard and others); aided by bacteriology, sanitary measures attained some considerable degree of exactness; public medicine gained such an ascendancy that special training and diplomas were offered at universities; and in 1875 a consolidated act was passed for the United Kingdom establishing medical officers of health, and responsible lay sanitary authorities, with no inconsiderable powers of enforcing the means of public health in rural, urban, port and other jurisdictions, with summary methods of procedure.

If there had recently been a high mortality on his father's plantation, it was due to the age of the slaves rather than to any peculiar hardship in their lot.

There is no reason to regard the mortality of protoplasm and the consequent limited duration of life as more than the necessary consequence of particulate character of living matter (see Longevity).

We are most horrified by that which strikes closest to us and reminds us of our own mortality.

The main cause of mortality and culling was severe purulent inflammation affecting the skull bones.

One of these patients died as a result of septic complications and was the only mortality in the series.

They are entombed in the urns and sepulchers of mortality !

Skeet shooting and business quot are quot in connection mortality trends natural.

Tragic in the sense that behind each painting is both a portentousness and a sense of mortality.

The 45-year trend in mortality was evaluated by computing crude and age-adjusted mortality rates, age-specific mortality rates, with birth cohort analysis.

The high mortality reported over the two or three days prior to the visit was due to culling of underweight birds.

The mortality associated with an acutely obstructed volvulus may be up to 50 %.

We also have research into health effects of noise, and interaction between poverty and cold weather in wintertime mortality.

Remember that the United States ranks 163rd out of 195 nations in infant mortality rates, so a scratch or bump will likely not cause permanent harm.

Others simply list the smallest child regardless of his or her mortality.

While feline distemper has a high mortality rate, it can be treated after the animal has been diagnosed with the disease.

Canine parvovirus (CPV) can often prove fatal even with prompt treatment, but the widespread use of administering modified live vaccines to young puppies and dogs has lowered the mortality rate.

Health problems associated with severe insomnia are more than significant, with mortality rates looming in studies conducted by Penn State College of Medicine and the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, respectively.

The inability to get enough rest has been shown in studies to have a higher mortality risk than heart disease, hypertension and smoking.

Studies show that elderly males who have insomnia triple their risk of mortality.

Rainbow Six, a seminal tactical shooter, also featured ragdoll corpses that added to the realism of video game mortality.

In contrast, a lack of self-feeding skills was associated with a six-fold increase in mortality (rate of death).

The meta-analysis reviewed the effect of these antioxidants on death from cardiovascular disease or from any other cause ("all-cause mortality").

The mortality rate in the early 2000s is estimated at 0.1-2 percent.

The mortality rate in infants infected with syphilis is about 54 percent.

The mortality rate for these symptomatic newborns is 20 to 30 percent.

Without treatment, the mortality rate is 80 percent.

Even with antiviral medication, the mortality rate is still 15 to 20 percent, with 40 to 55 percent of the survivors having long-term damage to the central nervous system.

Mortality in low birth-weight premature infants with systemic candidiasis may reach 50 percent.

Anorexia nervosa is a serious public health problem not only because of its rising incidence, but also because it has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder.

The long-term mortality rate for anorexia is estimated at around 10 percent, although some studies give a lower figure of 3 to 4 percent.

These specific health issues include infant mortality rates, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and immunizations.

Infant mortality rates (IMRs) in the United States and in all countries worldwide are an accurate indicator of health status.

Infant mortality among African Americans in 2000 occurred at a rate of 14.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.

Diabetes-related mortality rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans and Native Alaskans are higher than those for white people.

Asians and Pacific Islanders have the lowest diabetes-related mortality of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.

Approximately 90 percent of influenza-related mortality is associated with persons aged 65 and older.

They must cope not only with the shock of life's unpredictability, but their own mortality.

The mortality rate for this type of twinning is 9 percent.

Approximately 68 percent of identical twins are in this classification, and they have a mortality rate of 25 percent.

Only 2 percent of identical twins are in this classification, and they have a mortality rate of greater than 50 percent.

It may seem puzzling that a mutated gene with such harmful consequences would remain so common; one might guess that the high mortality of CF would quickly lead to loss of the mutated gene from the population.

Women who have an uncorrected coarctation of the aorta have a mortality rate of 10 percent during pregnancy and a 90 percent rate of complications.

Overall, the mortality rate from congenital cardiovascular defects has significantly declined in the past few decades.

In addition, the death rate of opioid abusers is proportionately significantly higher than the mortality of people who abuse PCP or cocaine.

Head injuries have a high mortality rate.

The mortality rate for all patients with acute subdural hematoma is about 60 percent.

Child mortality due to measles is considered largely preventable, and making the MMR vaccine widely available in developing countries is part of WHO strategy to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015.

An Apgar score of 0-3 at 20 minutes of age, for example, is indicative of high rates of morbidity (disease) and mortality (death).

C-sections have a higher maternal mortality rate than vaginal births with approximately 5.8 women per 100,000 live births dying, and half of these deaths are ascribed to the operation and a coexisting medical condition.

There are risks as well as benefits with this procedure, and mortality resulting from the procedure is high.

The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births in a given population.

In 2002, the United States' infant mortality rate varied widely by race of the mother from 14.3 for infants of black mothers to 5.9 for infants of Hispanic mothers to 5.8 for infants of white mothers.

As can be noted, the mortality rate for black infants is more than twice that of white infants.

The overall infant mortality rate in 2002 for all races was 7.0 per 1,000 live births, which was a slight increase over the previous year.

Infant mortality rate is one of the key indicators of a nation's health status.

The U.S. infant mortality rate is of great concern because the United States has fallen to the twenty-second nd place among industrialized nations in infant mortality rankings.

Infant mortality rates have typically been the highest for the babies of adolescent mothers and lowest for women in their late 20s and early 30s.

In general, infant mortality rates decrease with increasing maternal educational levels.

Similarly the infant mortality rate for unmarried mothers is often more than 83 percent higher than the mortality rate for married women.

Likewise, the infant mortality rate is characteristically higher for the infants of mothers who smoke than for those of nonsmokers.

The leading cause of infant mortality is congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities with a rate of 20.2 percent.

An analysis of the data established that the rise in the infant mortality rate was concentrated in the neonatal period (less than 28 days) and primarily in the first week of life where more than half of all infants' deaths occur.

On the other hand, the perinatal mortality rate (the number of late fetal deaths [28 weeks or more gestation] and early neonatal deaths [less than 7 days] per 1,000 live births) remain unchanged.

The infant mortality rate increased in the United States in 2002 for the first time since 1958, which indicates a need to examine what factors contributed to this raise.

Is there a difference in mortality rates among racial groups?

Many other industrialized countries have a socialized system of health care, which offers universal access to prenatal care and helps lower country-wide infant mortality rates.

Infant, Child, and Youth Mortality. [cited March 6, 2005].

Mortality in infants who have gangrene or peritonitis is particularly high in those with other defects.

Individuals who develop symptoms within a few days of infection have close to a 100 percent mortality rate.

The mortality rate for infections originating in the head and in newborns is also very high.

Herpes simplex encephalitis, the most common form of sporadic encephalitis in western countries, is a disease with significantly high mortality.

In untreated people, the rate of death is 70 percent while the mortality is 15 to 20 percent in persons who have been treated with acyclovir.

Some forms of encephalitis have more severe courses, including herpes encephalitis, in which mortality is 15 to 20 percent with treatment, and 70 to 80 percent without.

Antiviral treatment is ineffective for eastern equine encephalitis, and mortality is approximately 30 percent.

The mortality rate for unsuccessfully treated infants is 1-2 percent.

Once the diet has been followed for several years, individuals with celiac disease have similar mortality rates as the general population.

The prognosis for children diagnosed with XHIM is poor as of the early 2000s; morbidity and mortality for this disorder are significantly higher than for other primary immunodeficiency disorders.

It has a high mortality rate, especially among very low birth weight babies.

The average mortality is 30 to 40 percent, even higher in severe cases.

Generally, there are lower mortality rates from pneumonia in the United States than elsewhere in the world.

For example, 60 percent of boys born at 24 weeks' gestation die compared to 38 percent mortality for girls.

Carbohydrate intolerance has a very low mortality rate.

In developing nations, diarrheal illnesses are a major source of mortality.

Individuals with cri du chat have a 10 percent mortality during infancy due to complications associated with congenital heart defects, hypotonia, and feeding difficulties.

Untreated hemophilus infections-particularly meningitis, sepsis, and epiglottitis-have a high mortality rate.

Bacterial sepsis of the newborn has a mortality rate of 13-50 percent.

Vanadium deficiency may be associated with infant mortality.

Early injection of the antitoxin, ideally within 24 hours of onset of symptoms, can preserve nerve endings, prevent progression of the disease, and reduce mortality.

It may be helpful to remember how rare botulism is, how easy it is to assure food safety, and also that morbidity and mortality can be avoided with early recognition of the symptoms.

Although many of these behaviors are health-promoting, some are health-compromising, resulting in increasingly high rates of adolescent morbidity and mortality.

According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, mortality from SCI is influenced by several factors, the most important being the severity of associated injuries.

For isolated SCIs, the mortality after one year is roughly 5 to 7 percent.

Mortality from enterocolitis or surgical complications in infancy is 20 percent.

In countries that do not have routine immunization against this infection, the mortality rate varies from 1.5 to 25 percent.

The mortality rate for Reye's syndrome is between 30 and 50 percent.

The mortality rate in cases without complications is less than 0.1 percent.

Hyperglycemia in children during severe illness is a risk factor for poor outcomes in the underlying illness and has been reported as a cause of increased mortality in pediatric intensive care units.

A one-month mortality rate of 55 percent and a six-month mortality rate of 86 percent has been reported due to congenital heart disease.

Recurrent infections are a major problem in children with DiGeorge syndrome and an important cause of later mortality.

From 1850 to 1880 the United States Government included the Mortality Schedule with the census.

Depending on the county, you can find cemetery records, obituaries, family Bibles transcriptions, mortality schedules and probate.

While the population schedules are the most popular with genealogists, other schedules, such as the agriculture and mortality schedules, are also available.

Federal Census Mortality Schedules are useful if your ancestor died in the year before the census was taken.

You'll most likely have to pay to access Census Mortality Schedules.

The Netherlands was also recently found to have the highest infant mortality rate in Western Europe, which officials claim is unrelated to the relatively large percentage of births happening at home.

Statistics concerning the incidence of infant mortality in home birth sometimes reveal an increased risk of infant mortality at home, while other studies reveal the exact opposite.

Doctors and scientists who evaluate the statistics associated with infant mortality in home births advocate seriously considering this issue of transportation and medical facilities when planning a home birth.

Birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality, accounting for 20 percent of all deaths.

In addition to helping prevent cancer, some studies show that selenium may also help decrease mortality rates for those who do have cancer.

Without vitamin A, you might experience infertility and be more susceptible to night blindness, skin problems and illnesses of all kinds, including maladies that cause early mortality.

Results suggested a link between high dietary intake of zinc and lower prostate cancer mortality following diagnosis.

The studies of birth defects soon grew to encompass the education and research in pregnancy, premature birth, infant mortality and pre-natal healthcare.

While this may sound severe, it is important to mention that the mortality rate of H1N1 is lower than that of seasonal flu, and if proper precautions are taken there is no need for panic about this disease.

Reinsurance Group has developed an extensive database of mortality information that it can draw on to provide information for clients.

The air of Allonby is highly salubrious and conducive to longevity, as the bills of mortality show.

This continued for several years, and the mortality was so great that its adverse effects upon the ovine population of the country were still perceptible ten years afterwards.

This is not the conclusion of many observers, but it may be due to the excessive infant mortality among the lower classes, where an observance of the simplest sanitary laws is practically unknown.

The Bills of Mortality of the 16th and 17th centuries are of more value, and they have been considered and revised by such able statisticians as John Graunt and Sir William Petty.

These numbers have been taken as a basis for calculation of population, and one statistician reasoned that if 50,000 were buried in one churchyard 100,000 should represent the whole mortality of London.

Recent investigations have shown an alarming increase in mortality from miners' phthisis in Cornwall, South Africa and elsewhere.

On the first night of the debate Lord Howick, afterwards Lord Grey, who had been undersecretary for the Colonies, and who opposed the resolutions as proceeding too gradually towards abolition, cited certain occurrences on Sir John Gladstone's plantation in Demerara to illustrate his contention that the system of slave-labour in the West Indies was attended by great mortality among the slaves.

Yellow fever, whose first recorded appearance was in December 1849, was for many years almost a regular yearly visitant, and the mortality from it has been terrible.

But from its past history and local conditions, London might well be deemed capable of producing such an epidemic. In the bills of mortality since 1603 there are only three years when no deaths from plague are recorded.

It caused a much greater mortality and extended over a much wider area than that of 1867, including the towns of Kerbela and Hilleh.

Personal connexion was traced in every case, and rats excluded; there was no mortality among them, and of 300 caught and examined none had plague (Chalmers).

Age is a factor still more important than sex in a return intended to serve as an index of mortality.

The total mortality recorded was 1542, including two Europeans at Shillong.

The lowest mortality is found in the districts about Lakes Vener and Vetter; the highest in Norbotten, the east midland districts, Skane, and Goteborg och Bohus Lan.

In Santiago and Valparaiso the death-rate sometimes rises to 42 and 60 per 1000, and infant mortality is very high, being 73% of the births in some of the provincial towns.

In many districts and cities the number of births is therefore reduced, while at the, same time the mortality, in consequence of bad and often insufficient food, is considerably increased.

Owing mainly to the utter shiftlessness of the settlers and the great mortality among them, but partly to an attack by a body of natives, this first attempt proved a complete failure.

The greatest mortality was caused by virulent malarial fever, which raged during the autumn months of 'coo and the early months of 1901.

They may be the same or different sex, occur twice as frequently as identical twins, and have a mortality rate of 11.5 percent.

Mortality is decreasing, but if we may judge from the physical conditions of the recruits the physique of the nation shows little or no improvement.

In the early Renaissance his doctrine of the soul's mortality was adopted by P. Pomponazzi against the Thomists and the Averroists.

At all events in 1609 we have the second great plague year, with a mortality of 11,785.

This shows a considerable improvement, largely, but not entirely, in the diminution of infant mortality; the expectation of life at birth in 1882, it is true, was only 33 years and 6 months, and at three years of age 56 years I month; but the increase, both in the expectation of life and in its average duration, goes all through the different ages.

The mortality in most towns is so great that during the last ten years of the 19th century, in a very great number of cities, the deaths exceeded the births by I to 4 in the thousand.

The malady causing the greatest number of deaths is that of pulmonary consumption; but better housing accommodation has of late years reduced the mortality from this disease very considerably.

These figures include (1) the City of London within and (2) without the walls, (3) the City and Liberties of Westminster, (4) the outparishes within the bills of mortality and (5) the parishes not within the bills of mortality.

Besides coloured troops, there were employed in this campaign about 2400 Europeans, who suffered severely from fever and otherwise, though the mortality among the men was slight.

In Italy there was a great mortality in 543, but the most notable epidemic was in 565, which so depopulated the country as to leave it an easy prey to the Lombards.

The mortality from malaria in 1902 was higher than for any other part of Italy-1037 persons, or 154 per 100,000 (Basilicata, 141; Apulia, 104; Calabria, 77; Sicily, 76; province of Rome, 27).

Of the mortality due to malarial disease a small part only is referable to the direct attack of intermittent, and chiefly to the fever in its pernicious form.

No doubt large numbers are devoured by insectivorous birds, mammals and reptiles, but the mortality due to them and other foes sinks into insignificance beside that caused by the persecution of hymenopterous insects of the families Ichneumonidae and Pompilidae, especially of the latter, many species of which systematically ransack the country for spiders wherewith to feed their young in the breeding season.

Small-pox was the cause of a greater mortality than yellow fever even before the means of combating the latter had been ascertained.

He estimates the population to have been 180,000 persons, which Dr Creighton affirms to be nearly three times the number that we obtain by a moderate calculation from the bills of mortality in 1532 and 1 535.

In some mines dust seems to have but little effect on the health of the miners; indeed it is even claimed by some that coal dust decreases the mortality from phthisis.

Occasionally special expeditions are arranged to procure numbers of particular birds or mammals, but these are extremely costly and the mortality is usually high.

Between the middle and the end of the 19th century the rate of mortality decreased most markedly for all ages.

The universal custom of sleeping on the house-top in summer promotes rheumatic and neuralgic affections; and in the Koh Daman of Kabul, which the natives regard as having the finest of climates, the mortality from fever and bowel complaint, between July and October, is great, the immoderate use of fruit predisposing to such ailments.

During1902-1905an outbreak of surra, which caused great mortality among draught animals, further tried the sugar planters and necessitated government help. Notwithstanding all these calamities the Mauritians, especially the Indo-Mauritians, have succeeded in maintaining the position of the colony as an important sugarproducing country.

The mortality of the black death was, as is well known, enormous.

Although the mortality caused by the different plagues had a great effect upon the population of the country at large the city soon recovered the losses by reason of the numbers who came to London from outside in hopes of obtaining work.

To return to the 16th century when the Bills of Mortality came into existence.

The habit of allowing their meat to putrefy before regarding it as fit for food, and of encouraging children of tender age to drink to intoxication, accounts for absence of old folk and the heavy mortality which are to be observed among the Muruts of British North Borneo and some of the other more debased tribes of the interior of the island.

The average mortality under one year for the whole of Italy in 1893I 896 was only 16-66%.

For some time sickness and mortality were excessively large, but the reclamation of swamp and clearance of jungle on an extensive scale by Colonel Henry Man when in charge (1868-1870), had a most beneficial effect, and the health of the settlement has since been notable.

The theory that it is possible for a thing to be theologically true and philosophically false, and the doctrine of the mortality of the human soul, were both repudiated; while a three years' tithe on all church property was set apart to provide funds for a war against the Turks.

In the two years 1899 and 1900 the monsoon was very weak, the result being a severe famine which caused great mortality among the Bhil population.

Many millions of sheep and oxen all over the world have thus been treated, and the rate of mortality reduced from io to less than %.

As a consequence of these insanitary conditions the death-rate is very high, and in case of epidemics the mortality is enormous.

Such stocks, however, usually fail in time, partly from too close interbreeding, partly from the ordinary chances of mortality, and partly from the cumulative effects of strange conditions.

The scheme did ill; and in 1796 the government put an end to it, owing to the great mortality and the embarrassments of maintenance.

Mortality had been uppermost on his mind during the flight back – first his own and then Carmen's.

The increased mortality seems to be due to the general tendency toward forced speed in development work, which is secured by rapid drilling, and by an increase in the number of machine drills used in a single working-place.

He has lately had several books printed in England for me, "Old Mortality," "The Castle of Otranto" and "King of No-land."...

This is accounted for by the larger area contained in the bills of mortality compared with that containing only the city and its liberties.