A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia
London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891.
Octavo, 64 pages plus 3 charts (numbered 65-67, but printed rectos only).
Maroon cloth (lettered in gilt on the front cover) flecked and a little bumped at the extremities; title leaf creased; a few marginal fingermarks; an excellent copy with two manuscript corrections (page 4, 'Death Curses' now reads 'Death Curves'; and page 25, line 4, the first 'natural' now reads 'necessary').
Demography in its broadest sense: 'a description of the geographical features of the colony which have a hygienic relationship; of the meteorological conditions and their relation to certain diseases; of the sanitary progress of the colony'. Provenance: Arthur Edmund Shepherd (1867-1942), an Adelaide doctor, with his signature on the front free endpaper. Ferguson 7288; Ford 362.
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