Nizard Alfred.- The mortality effects of some modern health problems: AIDS, hepatitis, alcohol and tobacco consumption The AIDS epidemic is entering a new phase, characterized by a mortality that is relatively low and, above all, indirect and incompressible, and a growing population living with...

Maksud Monique and Nizard Alfred. Foundlings and children acknowledged and legitimated Statistics on filiation in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the first half of the 19th century, about 40 % of illegitimate children were abandoned. This figure then dropped and continued to...

Vallin Jacques and Nizard Alfred. ? Causes of Deaths in France. L An Attempt to Construct a Consistent Typology, applied to Deaths taking place between 1968 and 1974. For historical and practical reasons the International List of Diseases and Causes of Deaths is organized along certain lines....

Nizard Alfred and Vallin Jacques. ? Causes of Death in France. II The Linking of the 7th and 8th Revisions of the International Classification. Application to the Period 1958-1974. In the first article it was shown that mortality could be re-classified along two axes, one aetiological and the...

Nizard Alfred. The Law and Statistics on Filiation in France. The Law of Filiation since 1804. The statute of 3rd January, 1972 put an end to the old law of filiation which had been in force since the « Code Civil » of Napoleon in 1804. In the 19th century, the illegitimate child was not...

SUMMARY. Mortality in France varies throughout the country. The departements in which expectation of life is low are concentrated in the north and centered around three regions with high mortality : Brittany, the Nord and Alsace. In the south, mortality is particularly low in Poitou- Charentes,...