Mmmm ! Kevin - A speed of 10 mph would in fact be very fast in an urban area today by road !

It would also be intersting to know the distribution curve of death by age.

Child mortality puts a bias on actuarial tables. They should be taken in economic and geographic distribution.

The conflict of 1914/18, and the Flu pandemic of 1918/19 affected the tables of mortality.

Interestingly this the subject of discussion in AMICUS (Trade Union) recently.

It appears that employees who work continually in a sterile (clean room) enviroment continually are prone to suffering viral/bacterial infection when they start thier annual holidays. i.e. Thier natural immunity is down graded due to the sterile conditions at work.

This results in a significant extemsion of booked annual holidays due to certified sick leave, and the down side is a penalty for the employee on attendance bonus.

Negotiations continue.

Gareth

Gareth

Basically a "very Clean room" enviroment in Newport Gwent