The Only Use of
mortality
in
1984 by Orwell
- The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300 — and so it went on.
p. 74..8mortality = death rate
Definition:
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(mortality) the quality of being mortal (subject to death)
or:
death rate -- often given per 1,000 people per year