Thisbirefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of informationfrom the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for...
Thisbirefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and so...
This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of informationfrom the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England...
This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sou...