Death and birth in the northeastern part of Skåne : - A quantitive study of the parishes Ivetofta, Ivö, Rinkaby and Vinslöv 1880–1949

The aim of the following study is to depict the causes of death that were most common during a time period between 1880–1949 in the small villages Ivetofta, Ivö, Rinkaby and Vinslöv. The results will be presented in different time intervals of 10 years. Furthermore, the surge will analyse the variations over time and explain why causes of death may altern. In addition, it will also highlight specific aspects of the subject such as age, gender, birth, violent death, suicide and the Spanish flue. The results in the different areas will be compared to each other to illuminate similarities and differences. Moreover it will also be compared to national statistics to see if the different villages comply or oppose with the results. In order to improve the study, the conclusion will also be compared and connected to the two theories the demographic transition and The Epidemiologic Transition. They offer an explaination to the outcome and allow us to integrate this study in a greater context. The results of this survey, show that the most common cause of death was that of age. Furthermore, there was a huge up-swing in heart diseases, brain diseases and cancer in the later time periods. At the beginning, most people that died were very young. This changed however and as time passed, more and more people began to decease at an older age and this complied with national statistics. There was a slight majority of women that passed away although almost all persons that occured in cases of violent death, were men and this category increased with time. Even though a lot of people died, a lot more were born and therefore the small societies had a positive birth ratio. There occured cases of the Spanish flue although it did not influence the vast statistics.