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Studies in National Deterioration

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Studies in National Deterioration

Pearson (1910) On the Relationship of Health to the Psychical and Physical Characters in School Children

Studies in National Deterioration 4: Pearson, Karl. 1910. On the Relationship of Health to the Psychical and Physical Characters in School Children (London: Dulau and Co.). 77 pp. Advertised on endpapers as ‘The Health of the […]
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Studies in National Deterioration

Pope (1908) A Second Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Marital Infection

Studies in National Deterioration 3: Pope, Ernest G. (deceased), edited and revised by Karl Pearson. 1908. A Second Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Marital Infection. With an Appendix on Assortative Mating from Data […]
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Studies in National Deterioration

Pearson (1907) A First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Studies in National Deterioration 2: Pearson, Karl. 1907. A First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (London: Dulau and Co.). 26 pp. Studies in National Deterioration number 2 Pearson, Karl. 1907. A First Study […]
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Heron (1906) On the Relation of Fertility in Man to Social Status, and On the Changes in This Relation That Have Taken Place in the Last Fifty Years

Studies in National Deterioration 1: Heron, David. 1906. On the Relation of Fertility in Man to Social Status, and On the Changes in This Relation That Have Taken Place in the Last Fifty Years (London: […]
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Studies in National Deterioration

Stocks (1924) Blood Pressure in Early Life. A Statistical Study

Stocks, Percy assisted by Mary Noel Karn. 1924. Blood Pressure in Early Life. A Statistical Study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 88 pp. Studies in National Deterioration number 11
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Studies in National Deterioration

Karn and Pearson (1922) Study of the Data Provided by a Baby-Clinic in a Large Manufacturing Town

Karn, Mary Noel, and Karl Pearson. 1922. Study of the Data Provided by a Baby-Clinic in a Large Manufacturing Town (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 128 pp. Studies in National Deterioration number 10 Item not yet available.
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Studies in National Deterioration

Wiliams et al. (1914) A Statistical Study of Oral Temperatures in School Children with Special Reference to Parental, Environmental, and Class Differences

Williams, Mary H. [sic: Frances], Julia Bell, and Karl Pearson. 1914. A Statistical Study of Oral Temperatures in School Children with Special Reference to Parental, Environmental, and Class Differences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 124 pp. […]
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Elderton and Perry (1913) A Fourth Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: The Mortality of the Tuberculous

Elderton, W. Palin, and Sidney J. Perry. 1913. A Fourth Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: The Mortality of the Tuberculous: Sanatorium and Tuberculin Treatment. Based on (i.) Dr. Lawrason Brown’s Adirondack Sanitarium data. […]
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Snow (1911) The Intensity of Natural Selection in Man

Snow, Ernest C. 1911. The Intensity of Natural Selection in Man (London: Dulau and Co.). 43 pp. Includes Prefatory Note by Karl Pearson, p. 2. This publication was submitted by Snow to University of London […]
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Elderton and Perry (1910) A Third Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. The Mortality of the Tuberculous and Sanatorium Treatment

Elderton, William Palin, and Sidney J. Perry. 1910. A Third Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. The Mortality of the Tuberculous and Sanatorium Treatment (London: Dulau and Co.). 36 pp. Includes Prefatory Note by […]

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