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TitlePapers and articles from 1951-1959
Date1951-1959
DescriptionTopics include sickle-cell disease, malaria and fertility rates in Kenya and other parts of Africa

Titles (all published in some form unless stated otherwise):

‘Sickle-cell disease of Africans in Kenya’ paper published in East African Medical Journal Volume XXVIII Number 1 (January 1951)

‘Preliminary report on dental fluorosis in Kenya European children’ by William Brass and L.B. Nevill, paper published in East African Medical Journal Volume 30 Number 6 (June 1953)

‘The derivation of fertility and reproductive rates from restricted data on reproductive histories’ paper published in Population Studies Volume VII Number 2 (November 1953)

The variability of sickle-cell rates in the tribes of Kenya and the southern Sudan

‘The estimation of fertility rates from ratios of total to first births’ paper published in Population Studies Volume VIII Number 1 (July 1954)

‘The estimation of total fertility rates from data for primitive communities’ Proceedings of World Population Conference, United Nations, New York (1954)

‘Sickling and malaria’ by William Brass, R.A. Moore and H. Foy, paper published in British Medical Journal Volume II (September 1954)

‘General introduction to the East African Medical Survey, Monograph No. 1.’ by William Brass and W. Laurie, East African High Commission, Nairobi (1954)

‘Survival rates of African Askaris suffering from Tuberculosis’ by William Brass and H. Stott, paper published in Tubercle Volume 36 (May 1955)

‘Two surveys to investigate the relation of sickle-cell trait and malaria’ by William Brass, Foy, Moore, Timms and Kondi, paper published in British Medical Journal Volume 2 (November 1955)

‘Maintenance of high sickling rates through differential mortality from malaria’ Paper published in British Medical Journal Number 5001 (November 1956)

‘Models of birth distributions in human populations’ Paper published in ISI Bulletin Volume 36 Part 2 (1957)

‘Simplified methods of fitting the truncated negative binomial distribution’ Paper published in Biometrika Volume 45 Parts 1 and 2 (1958)

‘The distributions of births in human populations’ Paper published in Population Studies Volume XII Number 1 (July 1958)

‘Differentials in child mortality by the marriage experience of the mothers in six African communities’ Paper presented at Procs. International Population Conference, IUSSP, Vienna (1959)
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