William Kermack and the Origins of the Cohort Theory of Mortality Decline

Three more useful links:

William Ogilvy Kermack and the Childhood Origins of Adult Health and Disease by George Davey Smith and Diana Kuhb

‘The child is father of the man.’ The relationship between child health and adult mortality in the 19th and 20th centuries by Bernard Harris

Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality by George Davey Smith, Carole Hart, Mark Upton, David Hole, Charles Gillis, Graham Watt, Victor Hawthorne