... PART II The Institutionalization of Vital Statistics in England: How to ‘‘Secure’’ a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century England CHAPTER FOUR The Invention of Vital Statistics, 1830–1837 s we have seen, nineteenth-century demography consisted of a revival Aof the...

... CHAPTER FOUR The Invention of Vital Statistics, 1830–1837 s we have seen, nineteenth-century demography consisted of a revival Aof the more abstract, speculative approach to statistics formerly associ- ated with political arithmetic. In the first half of the nineteenth...

... CHAPTER FIVE Vital Statistics as an Instrument of Social Reform he willingness of statistical organizations to give a hearing to vital statis- Ttics can be explained both by the t’’ between Farr’s political goals and those of their members and by the inability of gatekeepers to...

... CHAPTER EIGHT The Challenge to Vital Statistics s in France, the period 1878 to 1885 in England was marked by the Aemergence of new, competing forms of statistical practice and a trans- formation in the social and political institutions which had supported the previous order...