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AN interesting report, prepared by Dr. Ellsworth Huntington with the advice of a strong committee, based on the daily meteorological and mortality records of the city of New York from April 15, 1882, to Mar. 24, 1888, appears as Bulletin No. 75 of the National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences, Washington). Gross mortalities at ages under five years and over five years are considered separately, also mortalities in these age periods from causes other than pneumonia and influenza. Mortality from pneumonia and influenza (all ages) forms a separate group. The data are expressed as percentages of the daily average of the particular year, and, when necessary, corrections for seasonal trend are introduced. For sufficient reasons, graphical methods are chiefly used, in particular climographs: that is, a third variable, daily deaths, is shown by contour lines on a bivariate diagram, for example, of temperature and relative humidity. It is contended that the method leads to clearer results than the use of correlation coefficients and massed averages.
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Weather and Health. Nature 127, 764 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127764a0
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