E J Clegg

Biographic Data

ID245913
NAMEE J Clegg
GIVEN NAMESE J
FAMILY NAMEClegg
SIGNATURECLEGG E J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Aberdeen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Disease and Urbanization

    E J Clegg, J P GarlickBOOKDisease and Urbanization2022

  • Infectious disease mortality in two Outer Hebridean islands

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2003

    The findings are reasonably consistent with a hypothesis that PTB was relatively uncommon in the Outer Hebrides until the later 19th century, and that it behaved epidemiologically like an acute infectious disease. This was not the case with Scotland as a whole, where the disease appeared to be largely endemic

  • Infectious disease mortality in two Outer Hebridean islands

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2003

    The findings demonstrate the episodic occurrence of epidemics of these three diseases in the two islands, as against their continual presence in the much larger population of Scotland. They reveal also the decreasing importance of these causes of death in all three populations. The data from Harris and Barra suggest that measles is a more epidemiologically 'stable' disease than pertussis. Both islands appear to obey Hamer's law of 'mass action'. …

  • Some factors affecting marital isonymy in three Outer Hebridean parishes

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2001

    Log linear analysis was used to investigate the relationships between spouse isonymy and parental isonymy, time, endogamy/exogamy and groom's occupation in a total of 6266 first marriages of parish-born spouses in the civil parishes of Harris, Barra and Stornoway, between 1855 and 1990. Stornoway was divided into rural and urban (Burgh) components. Spouse isonymy comprised between 6% and 12% of all marriages, parental isonymy was generally slight…

  • Probabilities of Marriage in Two Outer Hebridean Islands, 1861–1990

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1999

    A study has been made of the probabilities of marriage of females and males aged 15–49 (either as a whole or in 5-year age groups) in two Outer Hebridean islands, Harris and Barra. The results were compared with ages of marriage and with the frequencies of permanent celibacy. The marriages took place between 1861 and 1990. Median ages of marriage rose to maxima in the 1930s and 1940s, then fell steeply, levelling out latterly. Permanent celibacy …

  • Some Factors Affecting Marital Distances in the Outer Hebrides

    Open AccessE J Clegg, Trevor J Ringrose et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1998

    Some factors affecting marital distances have been studied in two Outer Hebridean islands, Harris (843 marriages) and Barra (444 marriages), over the period 1855-1990. In each island marital distances fell before 1900, but then rose to their greatest values after the 1950s. Fishermen generally married at the shortest distances and men in land-based occupations at the longest. The depression in the fishing industry during the 1880s and early 1890s…

  • Religion and Fertility in the Outer Hebrides

    Open AccessE J Clegg, J F CrossARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1995

    Estimates of fertility in Protestant Barra and Catholic Harris, islands in the Outer Hebrides, over the period 1856–1985, show that in both islands fertility declined, although marital fertility was generally greater than in Scotland as a whole, and illegitimate fertility was less. However, in Barra during 1966–75 there were pronounced rises in all the indices; illegitimate fertility showed the smallest rise. The publication of the papal encyclic…

  • Aspects of neonatal death in St Kilda, 1830–1930

    Open AccessE J Clegg, J F CrossARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1994

    Neonatal death (mainly due to tetanus) was common in St Kilda until 1891. Two aspects of this phenomenon are studied; factors which pre-dicted death, and the impact of neonatal death on family building. Maternal age appeared to be a predictive factor for death of the first child, but only in children of high birth order were other factors, particularly the number of previous neonatal deaths, important. The first birth interval appeared to be dete…

  • The growth of Melanesian and Indian children in Fiji

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1989

    A cross-sectional study was made of the growth of Melanesian and Indian children residing in or near Suva, the capital of Fiji. Melanesians numbered 283 males and 269 females, Indians 201 males and 216 females. Melanesian ages ranged from 6 to 20; Indian from 6 to 15. Generally Melanesians were larger than Indians at all ages and the most significant discriminating measurements were calf circumference and nose breadth for males, and face height a…

  • Birth dimensions in Melanesian and Indian Fijians and their relationships with maternal and socio-economic factors

    Open AccessE J Clegg, S D CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1989

    Fifty-nine Melanesian (MF) and 39 Indian (IF) Fijian full-term newborns were studied within 5 days of birth. Dimensions recorded included birthweight, length, crown-rump length, head circumference, upper limb length, bycondylar humeral and femoral diameters and four skinfolds (triceps, subscapular, suprailiac and thigh). Data from previous pregnancies of the presenting newborns' mothers were added to presenting birthweights, giving a total of 160…

  • Aspects of Fertility in Suva, Fiji

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1988

    Recent changes in vital rates in Fiji suggest that the Melanesian (MF) component of the population is growing faster than the Indian (IF) component, thus reversing a long-standing demographic trend. Patterns of family building were studied in the respondent families of 302 MF and 324 IF children at school in the capital, Suva. Melanesian families were larger than IF families, even when corrected for differences in maternal age and social class. P…

  • The use of parental isonymy in inbreeding in two Outer Hebridean populations

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1986

    The use of isonomic associations between the parents of spouses is described. Scottish marriage registers contain information on the natal surnames of all four parents of spouses and enable all the four possible types of isonymy between pairs of parents to be identified. Thus assumptions about the sex labelling of pedigrees may be tested and inbreeding coefficients calculated using either each type of isonymy singly or by pooling all types to giv…

  • The People of South Asia

    E J Clegg, J R LukacsARTICLEMan1986Cited by: 6

  • Blood group variation in the Isle of Lewis

    Open AccessE J Clegg, D Tills et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1985

    Blood groups and protein and enzyme polymorphism distributions were studied in 285 residents on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. As well as gene frequency calculations for individual loci, genetic distance estimations were made and a phylogenetic tree was constructed. The results indicated several major differences from North-west European populations, with high values of R2(CDe), Rz(CDE) and P1. Among protein and enzyme polymorphisms Hp…

  • Some factors associated with island depopulation

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLENorthern Scotland1984

  • An association between tongue-rolling phenotypes and subjects of study of undergraduates—a further comment

    Open AccessL M Bell, Lynn Bell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1983

  • Secular changes in age at menarche and adult stature in Hebridean women

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1980

    Data are presented on age at menarche and adult stature in 905 women from the islands of Lewis and Harris, born between 1920 and 1949. Menarcheal age showed no tendency to fall in women born between 1920 and 1935, but thereafter successive year-of-birth groups showed an almost continous decline. There were no significant changes in stature in successive groups. The changes have been correlated with trenda in affluence, as indicated by unemploymen…

  • Blood groups and reproduction in Hebridean women

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1979

    The distribution of ABO and RH blood groups was studied in 910 fertile women from the Isles of Lewis and Harris. The frequencies of group O mothers fell and of RH-mothers rose with increasing parity, but there were no significant changes in the ABO and RH blood group distributions among their offspring when they were subdivided according to their mothers' parity. When mother-offspring pairs classified according to their ABO and RH compatibility s…

  • ABO and Rh blood groups in the Outer Hebrides

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1979

    ABO and Rh (D--,dd) phenotype frequencies and gene frequencies are reported on 1547 pregnant women from different populations in the Outer Hebrides. There was significant heterogeneity of ABO gene frequencies in the Isle of Lewis, but not in or between other populations. More heterogeneity was apparent at the Rh locus, significant amounts being present between the populations of rural Lewis, between Lewis and Harris and between Lewis, Harris and …

  • The Ecology of Disease in Urban Societies

    E J Clegg, J P GarlickARTICLECurrent Anthropology1979Cited by: 2

  • The influence of family characteristics on the heights, weights and skinfolds of highland and lowland children in Ethiopia

    Open AccessE J Clegg, I G PawsonARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1978

    In Ethiopian children residing at either high or low altitude, the relationship between growth (in stature, body weight and skinfold thickness) and age and family size (broken down into birth rank and number of younger sibs) was examined. Contrary to expectation, when children were grouped for similar ages, the impact of family characteristics appeared to be small. However, there was some evidence that among low-altitude girls, growth was signifi…

  • Population changes in St Kilda during the 19th and 20th centuries

    Open AccessE J CleggARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1977

    During the century before its final evacuation in 1930 the population of St Kilda declined from over 100 to 36. While undoubtedly emigration and natural disasters played a part in this depopulation, ongoing processes were also important. In particular, replacement levels were never sufficient to maintain a constant population size. In the early part of this period the main factor responsible was heavy neonatal mortality, almost all from tetanus (…

  • Grundlagen der Rassensystematik

    E J Clegg, Ilse SchwidetskyARTICLEMan1975

  • Biology of Human Populations

    E J Clegg, Wolfram Bernhard et al.ARTICLEMan1975Cited by: 2

  • The Physique of Woman Athletes

    E J Clegg, O G EibenARTICLEMan1973