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I have referred to a commonly-felt need for numbers which date back before the First World War, simply as a start to modern statistical series. The problem now is to identify the sources.
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Platt, D.C.M. (1989). The Recorders. In: Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10300-3_2
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