Year: 1955
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Previous contributions to this series have dealt with infant mortality and with maternal mortality (Taylor, 1954; Taylor and Dauncey, 1954).The aim of this survey is to examine what ages are of special interest vis a' vis the conservation of life, and to complete it we have still to deal with old age.An appropriate definition of what we mean by the term old age in this context will emerge later.It will clear the ground for subsequent discussion if we first ask how many people reach extreme age.The current Life Table presented in Table I is based on data given in the Registrar General's one per cent.sample of the 1951 census.It sums up present day mortality for a fictitious population of 100,000 males and 100,000 females born in 1952, each subject to the average mortality rate of 1950-52.Of these approximately 90,000 males and 93,000 females would reach age 45, 52,000 males and 68,000 females would reach age 70, and 8,000 males and 18,000 females would reach age 85.These -
DOI: 10.1136/jech.9.3.162
Authors: W. Taylor, M. Dauncey
Institution: University of Birmingham
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2977509322