ABSTRACT
When she [FN] had finished the statistical section of her Report, she sent the proofs with her illustrative diagrams for Dr Fan’s revision. He [the statistician in the Registrar-General’s office] found nothing to alter. ‘This speech’, he wrote, ‘is the best that ever was written on Diagrams or on the Army. I can only express my Opinion briefly that Demosthenes himself with the facts before him could not have written or thundered better’. He especially commended her diagrams for the clearness with which they explained themselves. She was something of a pioneer in the graphic method of statistical presentation.
