Both Uses of
mortality
in
Arrowsmith
- In the beer-garden the tremendous Sondelius discoursed of the Cosmos Club, Halle's investigation of infant mortality, the suitability of combining benedictine and apple-jack, Biarritz, Lord Haldane, the Doane-Buckley method of milk examination, George Gissing, and homard thermidor.†
Chpt 17 *
- To demand that he be accurate in his statements, to quote Raymond Pearl's dictum: "As a matter of objective scientific fact, extremely little is known about why the mortality from tuberculosis has declined"—this was to be a scoundrel who really liked to befoul the pavements.†
Chpt 21
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