英明领袖华主席发出了科学要兴旺发达,捷报频传的伟大号召,一个“向科学进军”的热潮,已在全国兴起。战斗在卫生防疫战线的广大科技人员也焕发了革命的青春,积极钻研业务技术,努力攀登科技高峰。在这种形势下,对卫生统计学——这门医学科学研究的辅助工具,便提出了更高的和迫切的要求。过去,在“四人邦”的破坏干扰下,卫生统计学象其他科学领域一样,也受到了严重的摧残,被糟踏得不成样子。如过去曾有人在杂志上发表文章竞说卫生统计处理的技术是什么“投机”、“冒险”。许多科研资料未经严格实验设计,有的数据缺乏必要 Chairman Yingming’s leader, President Hua, issued a great call for science to flourish and win news, and an upsurge of “into science” has risen throughout the country. The majority of scientific and technological personnel fighting in the health and epidemic prevention front also radiated revolutionary youth, actively studied business technologies, and strived to climb the peak of science and technology. In this situation, higher and urgent requirements have been put forward for health statistics, an aid to medical science research. In the past, under the disruption of the “Four Peoples State,” health statistics, like other scientific fields, have also been severely crippled and rendered unsound. For example, some people have published articles in magazines in the past to scrutinize what the technology of health statistics processing is “speculation” and “adventure”. Many scientific research materials have not been rigorously designed and some data lack necessary