This paper provides a concise review of what is known about long-term trends in infant mortality rates in Britain since the middle of the sixteenth century. It considers, first, various estimates of infant mortality based on E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield's estimâtes of life expectancy at birth for England, 1541-1871, which it compares with equivalent series for groups of parishes and the families of the British peerage. Secondly, it explores the variations between infant mortality rates that were likely in different forms of environment, especially the urban and the rural. Thirdly, the paper suggests that the conditions affecting an individual's mortality in infancy may also have had a bearing on that same individual's life chance in adul...
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the evolution of Infant Mortality in Montréal and...
BACKGROUND Considerable regional variation existed in 19th century infant mortality (IMR) in England...
Cartmel est une communauté rurale des hautes terres du Nord-Ouest de l'Angleterre. Les résultats obt...
From the beginning of national unification (1861) onwards, the process of the decline in infant mort...
The authors attempt to study juvenile (and, more specifically, infant) mortality in XIXth and early ...
The study of nineteenth-century infant mortality in Britain has neglected the rural dimension to a s...
This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemete...
This article presents a substantive analysis using the Great Britain Historical Geographical Informa...
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the ...
Spatiotemporal variation in the decline in infant mortality in Western Europe. The authors present a...
The causes of the retardation of the infant mortality decline in the latter part of the nineteenth c...
This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemete...
Historical relationships between socioeconomic status and mortality remain poorly understood. This i...
This research, which was conducted as part of a nation-wide project, concerns the structure of infan...
In the long-running debate over standards of living during the industrial revolution, pessimists hav...
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the evolution of Infant Mortality in Montréal and...
BACKGROUND Considerable regional variation existed in 19th century infant mortality (IMR) in England...
Cartmel est une communauté rurale des hautes terres du Nord-Ouest de l'Angleterre. Les résultats obt...
From the beginning of national unification (1861) onwards, the process of the decline in infant mort...
The authors attempt to study juvenile (and, more specifically, infant) mortality in XIXth and early ...
The study of nineteenth-century infant mortality in Britain has neglected the rural dimension to a s...
This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemete...
This article presents a substantive analysis using the Great Britain Historical Geographical Informa...
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the ...
Spatiotemporal variation in the decline in infant mortality in Western Europe. The authors present a...
The causes of the retardation of the infant mortality decline in the latter part of the nineteenth c...
This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemete...
Historical relationships between socioeconomic status and mortality remain poorly understood. This i...
This research, which was conducted as part of a nation-wide project, concerns the structure of infan...
In the long-running debate over standards of living during the industrial revolution, pessimists hav...
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the evolution of Infant Mortality in Montréal and...
BACKGROUND Considerable regional variation existed in 19th century infant mortality (IMR) in England...
Cartmel est une communauté rurale des hautes terres du Nord-Ouest de l'Angleterre. Les résultats obt...