Health and Mortality in the 19th-Century Rural United States: The Second Epidemiological Transition in Madison County, New York.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A number of studies have examined changes in mortality and health during industrialization in both the United States and Western Europe; however, most of this work has focused on urban communities. Despite theories regarding differences between rural and urban patterns of mortality at this time, few analyses of data from rural communities have been done. Our goal is to examine trends in mortality, c. 1850-1880, for a rural county in central New York State at a time when farming, the economic base of this county, was becoming commercialized and industrialization was impacting the wider region.

Materials and methods

Using census mortality records from Madison County, NY (1850-1880), we examine trends in hazards of death, survivorship, and cause of death. In order to

SUBMITTER: DeWitte SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11871511 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature