Quelques données sur les Juifs d'URSS

SUMMARY Living in urban agglomerations entails risks through increased contact between individuals, greater density of traffic, the accumulation of various types of pollution, proximity to animals (such as rats), the pace of urban life, lack of space etc. But such risks are difficult to measure, as they are confounded with age structure, sex and social status and above all by social and geographical mobility. (Individuals may die in places where they have not lived for very long or belong to an occupation which they have exercised for only a short time before death). Statistics for England and Wales show a steady improvement in urban mortality as compared with rural, since the beginning of the century. The less detailed French statistics for the present century show a similar trend. Urban/rural differences tend to disappear as epidemics decline. They are replaced by regional cultural characteristics: mortality in urban agglomerations nowadays depends less on the size of its population and much more on the mortality of the region within which the agglomeration is situated.H L. Quelques données sur les Juifs d'URSS. In: Population, 30ᵉ année, n°3, 1975. pp. 627-629