Title Facts of life : the social construction of vital statistics, Ontario, 1869-1952 / George Emery

Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations Contents Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 Statistics as Culture: The Origins of Ontario Civil Registration -- 2 The Evolution of Ontario Civil Registration, 1869�1950 -- 3 Death in Ingersoll, 1880�1972: A Case-Study Approach to the Revision of Defective Mortality Statistics WITH KEVIN McQUILLAN -- 4 The Completeness of Birth Registrations, 1900�60 -- 5 Getting Born: How Definition Influenced Statistics for Infant Deaths and Stillbirths, 1926�51 6 Fatal Pregnancies in Ontario, 1920�35: A Study of the Nature of Statistics for Deaths by Cause7 Whose Facts of Life? The Problem of Residence in Vital Statistics, 1920�43 -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- A: Ontario-Quebec Differences in the Application of Canada's 1932 Statistical Definitions for Live Birth and Stillbirth: Discussion of the Evidence -- B: Ontario Death-Certificate Forms -- C: Definitions of Selected Medical Terms -- D: Rules for Choice of Causes of Death in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1933 E: Problems Encountered in Linking Death Registrations to Published StatisticsF: The Evidence of Residence Classification Practices in Vital Statistics, 1930�36 -- G: Hospital Beds and Reallocations for Residence: Ontario in the 1930s -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index Notes Print version record Subject Registers of births, etc. -- Ontario -- History Vital statistics -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography. HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Vital statistics Registers of births, etc. Population Ontario -- Statistics, Vital Ontario -- Population -- Statistics Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books History Statistics Vital statistics Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773564244 0773564241

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