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4 - Infant and child mortality from the 1911 census

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2010

Eilidh Garrett
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Alice Reid
Affiliation:
St John's College, Cambridge
Kevin Schürer
Affiliation:
University of Essex
Simon Szreter
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Introduction

This chapter focuses on the interactions between environment, social class, and infant and child mortality which were introduced in chapter 1. It sets out to enquire whether ‘who an individual was’ had a greater impact on their children's health than ‘where the family stayed’. Did, for example, high social class impart better health, or was it the ability of the wealthy to live in particularly salubrious surroundings which meant that the children of the better off were more likely to survive? The analysis undertaken also sought to elucidate which aspect of ‘social class’ or ‘environment’ had the greatest influence, or was most closely associated with mortality levels and trends amongst infants and young children at the close of the Victorian era.

Locational and social variables have been studied before in relation to infant and child mortality levels in the context of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, while Williams was able to address both ‘environment’ and class in her micro-study of Sheffield, assessments of the relative importance of location and social class variables have been precluded from large-scale studies by data limitations. The Registrar-General's reports and the aggregate tabulations in the 1911 census reports, to which most researchers are restricted, do not extend to cross-tabulations of social and locational variables.

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Changing Family Size in England and Wales
Place, Class and Demography, 1891–1911
, pp. 105 - 209
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2001

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