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BIOLOGY OF DEATH 



be claimed from the details reviewed in this and the pre- 

 ceding chapter? I hope that these facts will have served 

 in some measure to complete and round out in clearer 



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FEMALL 



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AGE 



FIG. 40. Showing specific death rates for females, classified in the same manner as in Fig. 39. 



outlines one part of the picture of the general biology of 

 death. It has been shown in what has preceded that nat- 

 ural death is not a necessarv or inherent attribute or 



