New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845-1909.

ABSTRACT: Health improved in English cities in the last third of the nineteenth century, in tandem with substantial increases in public spending on water supplies and sanitation. However, previous efforts to measure the contribution of public expenditures to mortality improvements have been hampered by difficulties in quantifying public health investments and the lack of mortality data for specifically urban populations. We improve upon the existing evidence base by (1) creating measures of the stock of urban district sanitary capital, by type, on the basis of capital expenditure flows, rather than loan stocks; (2) using mortality and capital stock data that relate to the same administrative units (urban districts), and (3) studying the period 1880-1909 as well as the earlier period from 1845. The s

SUBMITTER: Aidt TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952366 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature