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Reference -
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Any cow who will stop to reflict
will, I think,
6, readily admit that in collecting
information from
statistics involving, small
numbers, the inquiry is pursued under
circumilanci
of disadvantage,
corrected
by extending
In
a
which
it over a series
can
Every
only be
of years.
on to limited as
population
that of Hongkong it is impossible to drawd
any accurate inference touching, the relative proportion of death to life or of disease to
" from the computations of in
health".
tio
years. If a certain peculiarity is found to be
repeated for several
· years,
and to bear a certain
and uniform relation to fixed numbers, or if the
be in excess one year
same peculiarity
and
it can
the
a
reverse the next, yet, should it establish c uniform average for several years, hereafter be predicted to be a property of
the