ABSTRACT
The geographical analysis of mortality is that branch of descriptive epidemiology that has flourished for many years, leading to the publication of numerous atlases (for example, Mason et al., 1975; Junyao et al., 1979; Kemp et al., 1985; Gardner et al., 1993). Such atlases differ in a number of ways, not least of which is variation in the level of spatial aggregation at which data are mapped.
