STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL STATISTICS

Аннотация

The first steps in the field of statistical observations were made in ancient times, when governments of various states began to collect data about their countries. In Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome, population censuses, birth and death records were conducted, and lists of the adult population were compiled. In the Middle Ages, the main source of statistical information was church records, which were used to study demographic processes. With the development of trade in the late Middle Ages in Italy, Belgium and Holland, information began to appear about the countries with which trade was carried out. In medieval collections, including the first half of the 17th century, one can find scattered notes of a historical, state and ethnographic nature.