1.   A falling mortality rate led to a gradual increase in the proportion of the aged in the population.

2.   Let us turn now to the relationship between the chronic sickness and mortality rates.

3.   Main outcome measure - Crude perinatal mortality rates and rates adjusted for case mix.

4.   Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy.

5.   Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.

6.   Perhaps not surprisingly, the women transferred to consultant care had the highest perinatal mortality rates.

7.   Prior to World War I, infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population.

8.   Second, mortality rates have sometimes been used as a proxy for morbidity rates.

9.   Stomach ulcers and other digestive disorders are rife and there is a high mortality rate amongst veal calves despite their brief lifetime.

10.   The impact of social class has, however, been the same on the mortality rates of both sexes.