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The Causes of Death Among the Assured in the Scottish Widows Fund
By Claud Muirhead, M.D. · Published 1902 · Public domain (original) · Scan © Glenn Cooke
Covering 1874 to 1894. Data plus unfiltered listings of causes of death. Some too gross to imagine, some I’ve never heard of and suspect are no longer mortality factors like Glanders. You get glanders from horses. But it’s treatable with penicillins and similiar, so the CDC describes it as ‘rare’.
The Excel data
The downloadable causesofdeathscottishwidowsfund.zip contains selected pages from the original book transcribed into Excel, plus a high-resolution image of each transcribed page (the image filename matches the corresponding .xlsx).
The data is in the public domain. You're welcome to use it; we just ask you link back to the archive so others can find it.
Glenn Cooke, BMath, MMT
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