It showed itself on the Rhodesian side climbing a knoll past a cluster of huts which had once been a police station, but had been relinquished because of the great mortality from fever.
But, though the mortalitybe relatively small, our late methods have come very near to destroying the foundations of rural life.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Save on your account, my dearest Aylmer," observed his wife, "I might wish to put off this birthmark of mortality by relinquishing mortality itself in preference to any other mode.
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.
To establish annual differences in reproductive success and mortality rates by age classes of the key species, and from these to identify rates of population turnover so as to be able to predict the effects of mass mortalities.
Mortality under "history of oiling" is based on our knowledge that some species (e.
Observations on natural mortality and native use of eider ducks along the Beaufort Sea Coast.
Some mortality of alcids has been shown to take place in Cook Inlet, Alaska, from beach-netting for Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.
Consequently, there is a greater chance of bird mortality occurring in the Beaufort Sea than in the Chukchi Sea because the early migrants are unable to find open water.
An effort was also made to obtain figures for the mortality caused by oil pollution and fishing gear as well as by direct hunting pressure.
Snarski, personal communication), but this mortality has not been quantified.
Mortality of thick-billed murres in the West Greenland salmon fishery.
Although this cause of mortality is insignificant in terms of the total population of either species (only 0.
Mortality of thick-billed murres in the west Greenland salmon fishery.
Just as He touches the leper and in unpolluted, or the fever patient and receives no contagion, or the dead and draws no chill of mortality into His warm hand, so He becomes like His brethren in all things, yet without sin.
But even a twenty per cent mortality from such a common disease, if it were to proceed unchecked, would make enormous inroads every year upon our national vigor.
Yet there is no disease or combination of diseases of the whole food canal which has half the mortality of consumption alone, in civilized communities, while in the Orient the pneumonic form of the plague is a greater scourge than cholera.
Chantemesse has imported some six hundred successive cases treated with an antitoxin, whose mortality was only about a third of the ordinary hospital rate, and the future is full of promise.
Not only does far the heaviest cancer mortality fall between the ages of forty-five and sixty, but the organs most frequently and severely attacked are those which between these years are beginning to lose their function and waste away.
Both of these have an extraordinary and deadly preference for the nervous system from the very start, and this is what gives them their frightful mortality and discouraging outlook.
Veterinarians in different sections of the country where it is prevalent report a mortality of 75 per cent or even higher.
If there is a special tendency to complications of some sort, the mortality is increased.
In some outbreaks, however, complications of one kind or another preponderate; in such instances the rate of mortality is much increased.
The mortality in this disease may be as high as 25 per cent, but it is usually not more than 10 per cent.
It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighbourhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered.
As there were no houses to receive them, they had to be lodged at the hot season of the year in stifling cabins, where the mortality raged without restraint.
Preventing mortality in traps was more difficult in summer than in winter.
Since the heaviest mortality is in young voles, adults which become established in an area may live more than 18 months and, if they are females, may produce more than a dozen litters.
Perhaps the extremely dry weather which followed the heavy winter mortality delayed the recovery of the population.
Population density, life span and mortalityrates of small mammals in the bluegrass meadow and bluegrass field associations of southern Michigan.
Juveniles were caught in relatively small numbers because of their restricted movements, and no way to determine prenatal and juvenal mortality was available.
He adds: "It is asserted that in many large Indian cities the infant mortality approaches one-half of all the children born.
And in New Zealand, where the sale of contraceptives is practically free, the birth rate is now 20, and the mortality rate is 10.
The very high mortality of large families has long been known, and their association with degenerate conditions and with criminality.
The fact that the German birth-rate is higher than the English ceases to be a matter of satisfaction when it is realized that German infantile mortality is vastly greater than English.
We find a mortality among young children which sometimes destroys more than half of the children born before they have attained the age of five years.
When the supply, from one cause or another, is seriously diminished, the fact is reflected with absolute exactness in the mortality returns.
Or we make friends in books, and live in easy comradeship with Horace or Pepys or Johnson in some static past that is untouched by the sense of the mortality of things.
The mortality seems otherwise to have been smaller in Spain than in Italy, and about as considerable as in France.
In every destructive pestilence the common people at first attribute the mortality to poison.
The infallible signs of the oriental bubo-plague with its inevitable contagion were found there as everywhere else; but the mortality was not nearly so great as in the other parts of Europe.
They alone were considered as having brought this fearful mortality upon the Christians.
Many of the Huguenot generals, and the admiral himself, were disabled, and the mortalitywas great among the private soldiers.
The fearful mortality attending it soon revealed the true character of the scourge.
It was not strange that the extraordinary mortality which soon fell upon the well-to-do burghers was viewed by many as a direct punishment sent by the Almighty.
In the rural districts the mortality of the Negro is not excessive; it is in the cities and towns where he is brought into close contact with the evils and vices of civilization that he dies so rapidly.
The author enters into the causes of mortality and points out that in addition to infant mortality, which has already been noticed, consumption, pneumonia, and vicious taints of blood are the most alarming ones.
When the sick were put on board transports, to be conveyed to hospital, the mortality was shocking.
Mortality was not so great among them, but they also lost some ears and tails.
Nearly a third of our men were soon sick with miasma and swamp fever; the hospitals were over-crowded and the mortality high.
During a decade, their numbers had decreased from wars with the Chippawa Indians and other tribes in the north, while in the south, near the white settlements, the mortality from the small-pox had been very great among Poncas and Yanktons.
All this no doubt contributed to the greater mortality among them during the prevalence of the cholera.
The mortality in Southern prisons (fearfully large, although over three per cent less than the mortality in Northern prisons) resulted from causes beyond the control of our authorities, from epidemics, etc.
The intrusion of this melancholy ode, among the careless levities of our poet, reminds us of the skeletons which the Egyptians used to hang up in the banquet-rooms, to inculcate a thought of mortalityeven amidst the dissipations of mirth.
But seventy years ago very little was known as to the fearful slavery and diseases and mortality which result from the use of tobacco, compared with what is known to-day.
The greatest mortality which results from the use of intoxicating drinks does not result from what is recognized as drunkenness, but from what is recognized as moderate but steady drinking.
Gimoro had been very unfortunate in losing his children when young, and I understood that the mortality was very great among all infants from two years old to five.
One of the African difficulties consists in the mortality of the cattle when changing districts.
The mortality among infants was appallingly large; and the natural result--the survival of the fittest--may account for the present tough endurance of the New England people.
To him thoughts of mortality were indeed cordial to the soul.
Pass on with your burden of mortality and lay it in the tomb with jolly hearts.
Life Insurance) Defn: A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.
Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.
