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Infant Mortality Rates
Per 1,000 live births in the United Kingdom 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 6.2 6.1 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.2…vital statistics
(Encyclopedia) vital statistics, primarily records of the number of births and deaths in a population. Other factors, such as number of marriages and causes of death, by age groups, are regularly…The Celtic Twilight: Mortal Help
by W. B. Yeats Belief and UnbeliefA VisionaryMortal Help One hears in the old poems of men taken away to help the gods in a battle, and Cuchullan won the goddess Fand for a while, by…Highest Infant Mortality Rate
A tragic measure of public health One of the most common metrics of public health is how many children born in that country survive infancy, or more broadly how many reach the age of five. Due to…Lowest Infant Mortality Rate
A tragic measure of public health One of the most common metrics of public health is how many children born in that country survive infancy, or more broadly how many reach the age of five. Luckily…Morgan, John
(Encyclopedia) Morgan, John, 1735–89, American physician, b. Philadelphia, grad. College of Philadelphia (now Univ. of Pennsylvania), 1751. He founded, in Philadelphia (1765), the first medical…graveyard school
(Encyclopedia) graveyard school, 18th-century school of English poets who wrote primarily about human mortality. Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude…blackleg
(Encyclopedia) blackleg or black quarter, acute infectious disease of cattle, less often of sheep, caused by an organism of the genus Clostridium. It is characterized by inflammation of muscles with…plague
(Encyclopedia) plague, any contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms of the same infection. These acute febrile…Shafter, William Rufus
(Encyclopedia) Shafter, William Rufus, 1835–1906, American general, b. Galesburg, Mich. He served in the Union army during the Civil War and in 1867 joined the regular army, rising to become…Trending
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