David Hood on Nostr: In my lunchtime I held a copy of the 1890 Statistical Handbook of New Zealand in my ...

In my lunchtime I held a copy of the 1890 Statistical Handbook of New Zealand in my hand, which is the oldest tutorial published in New Zealand that I know of for standardising death rates by age against a reference population. OCRed digitised version at https://www3.stats.govt.nz/historic_publications/1890-official-handbook/1890-official-handbook.html