The Canada Lancet and Practitioner. ...1924 |
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Page 34
... deaths . Increased compensation to the worker , shorter hours , protec- tion against heat , cold , dust , fumes ... death rate from all causes from 1885-88 , inclusive , was 19.5 per 1,000 population ; for 1920 , the rate was 13.9 ...
... deaths . Increased compensation to the worker , shorter hours , protec- tion against heat , cold , dust , fumes ... death rate from all causes from 1885-88 , inclusive , was 19.5 per 1,000 population ; for 1920 , the rate was 13.9 ...
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... death rate for pulmonary tuberculosis in 1885 was 307 per 100,000 ; in 1920 it was 96 per 100,000 . This means that if the tuberculosis death rate had remained to - day what it was in 1885 in place of approximately 3,300 dying this year ...
... death rate for pulmonary tuberculosis in 1885 was 307 per 100,000 ; in 1920 it was 96 per 100,000 . This means that if the tuberculosis death rate had remained to - day what it was in 1885 in place of approximately 3,300 dying this year ...
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... death by accident every seven minutes . Many occur on the railroads . In the five years pre- ceding December 31 , 1921 , there were 846,732 rail- way casualties - 12,780 employees killed and 715 , - 222 injured ; 1,479 passengers were ...
... death by accident every seven minutes . Many occur on the railroads . In the five years pre- ceding December 31 , 1921 , there were 846,732 rail- way casualties - 12,780 employees killed and 715 , - 222 injured ; 1,479 passengers were ...
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... death , has labelled the disorder cardiovascular hypertensive disease . Allbutt has applied the term hyperpiesis to a group of cases in which elevation of the blood pressure is rather sudden and associated with many symptoms . Essential ...
... death , has labelled the disorder cardiovascular hypertensive disease . Allbutt has applied the term hyperpiesis to a group of cases in which elevation of the blood pressure is rather sudden and associated with many symptoms . Essential ...
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... deaths that occur each year are of children within the first year of age . Infant mortality cuts heavily into the life expectation be- cause a death in that year erases the entire expecta- tion for that life , whereas a death at say ...
... deaths that occur each year are of children within the first year of age . Infant mortality cuts heavily into the life expectation be- cause a death in that year erases the entire expecta- tion for that life , whereas a death at say ...
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Page 154 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
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