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This study examines the claim that social inequality in health in European populations was absent prior to 1750. This claim is primarily based on comparisons of life expectancy at birth in England between general and ...
Here we test whether a socio-economic gradient in child survival was already present in early nineteenth-century England using individual-level data on infant and child mortality for eight parishes.
The substantive results show that differences in child mortality rates between males and females were relatively minor both in Cartmel and in the country as a whole.
This study uses the paternal occupational descriptors routinely recorded in Anglican baptism registers from 1813–37 to compare infant and early childhood mortality by social status.
In this study, we tested whether a socioeconomic gradient in child survival was already present in early nineteenth-century England using individual-level data on infant and child mortality for eight parishes from the...
Infant and child mortality was extremely high before 1700: 63 per cent of all royal children died under the age of five, and this was accompanied by a large number of stillbirths.
In the case of the early modern English aristocracy, birth rates and rates of child mortality were high, both being largely driven by the longstanding tradition of using wet nurses and other servants to care for children.
We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle, namely the stubborn persistence of, and salient variation in, high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns ...
Few historical demographic topics have attracted more interdisciplinary scholarly attention than infant and child mortality—the death of an infant before its first birthday and the death of a child between the ages of...
This article draws together evidence for long-run trends in mortality rates in English cities to assess whether the Industrial Revolution was associated with marked increases in mortality levels within urban populations.
