1. the state or condition of being subject to death. 2. the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population; death rate. 3. mortal beings collectively; humanity. 4. death or destruction on a large scale, as from war, plague, or famine. 5. Obs. death. [1300–50] Random...
the state or condition of being subject todeath;mortalcharacter, nature, or existence. the relative frequency ofdeathsin a specific population;death rate. mortalbeings collectively; humanity. deathor destruction on a large scale, as from war, plague, or famine. ...
Plague mortality rate by age and sex in the parish of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate, London, 1603. Population Studies, XXV/1, mars 1971, 131-146.Hollingsworth MF, and Hollingsworth TH (1971) Plague mortality rates by age and sex in the parish of St. Botolph's without Bishopsgate, ...
In December 1665 the mortality rate fell suddenly and continued down through the winter and into early 1666, with relatively few deaths recorded that year. From London the disease spread widely over the country, but from 1667 on there was no epidemic of plague in any part of England, though...
The meaning "widespread death, numerousness of deaths; plague" is from c. 1400; the sense of "number of deaths from some cause or in a given period" is from 1640s, later especially in proportion to population. also frommid-14c.
47% of global Maternal Mortality (MM) occurred in Africa, with the highest rate in Sub-Saharan countries. It is a great calamity because 85% of all maternal deaths are direct results of complications arising during pregnancy, delivery or the puerperium. Home deliveries are over 60%, largely ...
Under such circumstances, it can be argued, the organism as a whole may be deemed dead, although the majority of its cells are still alive. The “point of no return” To claim that death is a process does not imply that this process unfurls at an even rate, or that within it there ...
In 1996, infectious disease deaths decreased for the first time since 1982, falling to a rate of 59 deaths per 100,000. The decline in infectious disease mortality paralleled the drop in all-cause mortality during the first half of the 20th century (Figure 2). The crude mortality rate from...
desperation or a lack of alternatives as part of the picture. Wunderli argues that the high failure rate of prosecutions in the church courts may indicate that Londoners were turning to secular courts to police sexual offences,59but perhaps they merely felt that having denounced bad characters ...
The Course of Tuberculosis Mortality and Morbidity in the United States Tuberculosis is in retreat in the United States of America. At the beginning of the century it was the leading cause of death with a mortality rate of 200 ... Dublin,I Louis - 《Am J Public Health Nations Health》 被...