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19th century infant mortality decline in the Nordic countries

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.

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19th century infant mortality decline in the Nordic countries

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  1. 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/

  2. Infant mortality in a number of countries 1801-1900 Deceased 0-1 years by 100 live births

  3. Infant mortality in Sweden 1848-1852

  4. Infant mortality in Norway 1856-60

  5. IMR in Norway 1876-80

  6. Denmark 1850-54

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  8. Infant mortality in northern Finland, Sweden and Norway around 1860

  9. IMR around1920

  10. IMR by province

  11. CDR and IMR

  12. Norway and Sweden

  13. Percent of live births 1876-1898 Dead 0-1 in Norway by age in months Source: Johannessen (1902)

  14. Dead aged 0-1 in Norway 1876-1898 relative to live births The country Rural Towns Black: boys Red: girls Legitimate Illegitimate

  15. Dead infants by month of year 1894-97

  16. 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/

  17. www.neonatology.org/classics

  18. Wetnurse

  19. A History of the Breast

  20. Iceland 1920 Survival in days of breast-fed and artificially fed infants in a fishing village in Iceland 1915-1925

  21. Biometric test - Norway

  22. Causes of death

  23. IMR, ethnicity and strata Anders Brändström, Demographic Database, Umeå

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