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On some Considerations suggested by the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General, being an Inquiry into the Question as to how far the Inordinate Mortality in this Country, exhibited by those Reports is controllable by Human Agency (Part II. Concluded from page 112)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

H. W. Porter Esq.
H. W. Porter Esq.*
Affiliation:
Alliance Assurance Company Institute of Actuaries Statistical Society
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As regards the hereditary transmission of phthisis, another investigation of the statistics of the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton showed, that where one parent only was affected with pulmonary disease, the fathers being so affected transmitted the disease to their sons in 63 out of 106 cases, being 59·4 per cent. of the whole number observed; and to their daughters in 47 cases only out of 108, being 43½ per cent.: while the mothers being phthisical transmitted the disease to their sons in 43 cases, being 40·6 per cent.; and to their daughters in 61 cases, being 56½ per cent. of the cases under observation. Judging, therefore, from these figures, it would probably appear, if a large number of cases were registered, that the power of transmission of disease by phthisical fathers to their sons, and by phthisical mothers to their daughters, is about the same.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , October 1860 , pp. 149 - 167
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1861

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References

page 150 note * Assurance Magazine, vol. iv., pp. 112, 260; vol. vi., p. 110.

page 166 note * Vide 16th Annual Report of the Registrar-General.