Bridging the gap: Determining long-term changes in infant mortality in pre-registration England and Wales |
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Authors: | CHRIS GALLEY NICOLA SHELTON |
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Affiliation: | Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London, Cornwall House Annexe, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TX |
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Abstract: | Much effort has been expended in analysing a small sample of parish registers to produce national estimates of infant mortality for the period 1570–1840. However, in an age when inter-parish variations in infant mortality were considerable, national trends often obscured local and regional differences. By analysing data from the initial years of Civil Registration (1839–1846) together with infant mortality rates from a range of parishes, it is possible to assess the extent of variation and change in England and Wales during the period 1580–1840. The geographical variations in infant mortality and the age structure of infant deaths were sufficient to suggest that the most important influence on whether infants survived was disease environments. |
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Keywords: | fertility migration adoption adaptation assimilation age at migration language education Canada |
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