270 likes | 439 Views
2003 Association for History and Computing Conference University of Tromsø. 19th century infant mortality decline in the Nordic countries. Gunnar Thorvaldsen Registreringssentral for historiske data http://www.rhd.uit.no/. Infant mortality in a number of countries 1801-1900.
E N D
2003 Association for History and Computing Conference University of Tromsø 19th century infant mortality decline in the Nordic countries Gunnar Thorvaldsen Registreringssentral for historiske data http://www.rhd.uit.no/
Infant mortality in a number of countries 1801-1900 Deceased 0-1 years by 100 live births
Infant mortality in northern Finland, Sweden and Norway around 1860
Percent of live births 1876-1898 Dead 0-1 in Norway by age in months Source: Johannessen (1902)
Dead aged 0-1 in Norway 1876-1898 relative to live births The country Rural Towns Black: boys Red: girls Legitimate Illegitimate
References • Denmark:Anne Løkke, Døden i barndommen, København: 1998 • Iceland: Òlöf Garðarsdottir: Saving the Child. Regional, cultural and socio- • economic aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland 1820-1940, 2002 • Finland: Kari J. Pitkänen, ”Infant Mortality Decline in a Changing • Society,” in Yearbook of Population Research in Finland 1983, 46-74. • Sweden: Sören Edvinsson, Marie C Nelson, John Rogers: Dying Young. Swedish infant and childhood mortality in review. Hygiea Internationalis. • Norway: Rural infant mortality in nineteenth century Norway. Hygiea Internationalis: http://www.liu.se/tema/inhph/journal/ • Classic work on neonatology: http://www.neonatology.org/classics/
Iceland 1920 Survival in days of breast-fed and artificially fed infants in a fishing village in Iceland 1915-1925
IMR, ethnicity and strata Anders Brändström, Demographic Database, Umeå