Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600-1870.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study tests the argument that industrialisation was accompanied by a dramatic worsening of urban health in England.

Materials

Family reconstitutions derived from baptism, marriage and burial records for the period before 1837, and from civil registration of deaths and census populations between 1837 and 1900.

Methods

Age-specific mortality rates are used as indicators of population health.

Results

The available evidence indicates a decline in urban mortality in the period c.1750-1820, especially amongst infants and (probably) rural-urban migrants. Mortality at ages 1-4 years demonstrated a more complex pattern, falling between 1750 and 1830 before rising abruptly in the mid-nineteenth century.

Conclusions

These patterns are better explaine

SUBMITTER: Davenport RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature