The morbidity of medical practitioners

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 467-471

  Riley, James C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Jacques Bertillon; Medical profession; Mortality; Relationship of mortality and morbidity; Robert Woods; Victorian England

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL STATISTICS;

EUROPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIANS; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0030321858     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/9.3.467     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. R. Woods, 'Physician, Heal Thyself: The Health and Mortality of Victorian Doctors', Social History of Medicine, 9 (1996), 1-30.
2. Woods, 'Physician', quotes from p. 23.
3. J. Bertillon, 'Morbidity and Mortality according to Occupation', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 55 (1892), 559-600.
4. Several sources provide guidance about the rules of French mutual societies, including [N.] G. Hubbard, De l'Organisation des Sociétés de Prévoyance ou de Secours Mutuels (Paris, 1852);
5. A. Allain, L'Assurance Contre la Maladie dans la Mutualité Française (Paris, 1906);
6. and L. Marie, Rapport au Nom de la Commission de Comptabilité Statistique & Financière des Sociétés de Secours Mutuels (Melun, 1893). See also the printed formula of rules used by some societies in the Lyons region in Archives départmentales du Rhône, Lyon, 4Xp9.
7. Bertillon, 'Morbidity and Mortality', 560, n1. To see how sloppy Bertillon's methods as an analyst of sickness records were, given the technology of his day, compare his work with that of such British statisticians and actuaries as Francis G. P. Neison, Jr. and Henry Ratcliffe. For example, Ratcliffe and Neison calculated time at risk by taking into account the flow of members entering and leaving the friendly societies, but Bertillon made no effort to calculate time at risk, merely reporting the annual average number of members at each age of the Lyons silk workers' sick fund.
8. G. J. Sheridan, Jr., The Social and Economic Foundations of Association among the Silk Weavers of Lyons, 1852-1870 (New York, 1981), II, 331ff. for wage data;
9. and Société de secours mutuels des ouvriers en soie de Lyon, Compte-rendu de l'Exercice 1874 (Lyon, 1875), p. 12, for information about benefits.
10. T. McKeown, The Modern Rise cf Population (London, 1976), p. 54.
11. J. C. Riley, 'Morbidity Trends in Four Countries: The Risk of Being Sick', Population and Development Review, 16 (1990), 403-32;
12. and J. C. Riley, 'The Prevalence of Chronic Diseases during Mortality Increase: Hungary in the 1980s', Population Studies, 45 (1991), 489-96.
13. H. Ratcliffe, Observations on the Rate of Mortality & Sickness existing among Friendly Societies . . . (Manchester, 1850);
14. and H. Ratclifie, Observations on the Rate of Mortality and Sickness existing amongst Friendly Societies . . . (Colchester, 1862).