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The altered seasons of death in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

W. R. Lyster
W. R. Lyster
Affiliation:
c/o ANZ Bank, Grafton Street, London, W.1
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The seasonal distribution of deaths in the United States has progressively altered since 1940. The proportion of deaths in the first half of the year has declined. During the 1940s there were 7·44% more deaths in the first half than in the second half of the year, but during the 1960s the difference was only 4·85%.

The continuous shift in the seasonal distribution of the crude death rates from all causes is in association with a similar movement in the monthly fertility rates of the United States.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 145 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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