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A NOVA SCOTIA LIFE TABLE A. C. JOST 



The lack of data respecting deaths in quinquennial periods, 

 and the occurrence of one eleven year group, made impossible 

 the wholly mathematical method of life table construction 

 advised by George King. The method used was that recom- 

 mended by Sir Arthur Newsholme, and might be called a graph- 

 ical rather than a mathematical method. Curves showing 

 the population and the deaths for the individual years from 

 to 106 were laid off. From these, there was computed the death 

 rates of the individual years and from these death rates the 

 "Probability of living" (px) was computed by using the usual 

 formula. 



By selecting the three years 1918-19, 1919-20 and 1920-21, 

 the high provincial mortality, due to the Halifax disaster and 

 the influenza epidemic, was avoided, and figures were obtained, 

 which, it was thought, represented with a fair degree of accur- 

 acy the average mortality prevailing in the Province. 



The numerical data from which the table was constructed 

 is here given according to age groups. 



MALE 



1 



FEMALK 



AGE GROUPS 



LIVES AT RISK 



DEATHS 



LIVES AT RISK 



DEATHS 



0^ 



91228 



90689 



86857 



77740 



122718 



98304 



84218 



61073 



45936 



25633 



8604 



801 



36 



3199 



315 



161 



412 



1057 



862 



672 



848 



1236 



1823 



1305 



251 



11 



89472 



87565 



83082 



77365 



122906 



91866 



75555 



57430 



42444 



26411 



10608 



1514 



64 



2571 



5-9 



244 



10-14 



214 



15-19 



442 



20-29 



984 



30-39 



800 



40-49 



649 



50-59 



738 



60-69 



1043 



70-79 



1589 



80-89 



1354 



90-100 



Over 100 



416 

 16 



Totals 



793837 



12152 



766282 



11060 



