“On the Construction of Life Tables, illustrated by a New Life Table of the Healthy Districts of England. Read April 7, 1859.” In: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1859, pp. 837-878.
The first printing of Farr’s preliminary report describing the use of the Scheutz calculator to prepare life tables, published five years before his English Life Tables (1864, see Garrison & Morton 1700.1), and representing the very earliest application of computers to medical statistics. The table was one of the greatest.....