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SOME years ago, in this journal (vol. xxix. p. 338), I published a short article on the intimate relations which subsist between meteorological conditions and the statistics of death and crime in India. In this it was incidentally mentioned that, imperfect as they were, the vital statistics of the North-West Provinces and Oudh were at that time more to be depended on than those of any other province in India, thanks to the unremitting attention paid to the subject of registration by the late Sanitary Commissioner, Dr. Planck; and though they have not sensibly improved since 1884, but perhaps rather fallen off in accuracy, the birth and death registers of these provinces are still undoubtedly better than any others in India embracing an equal population.
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HILL, S. The Life Statistics of an Indian Province . Nature 38, 245–250 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038245d0
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