19th century infant mortality decline in the Nordic countries

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19th century infant mortality decline in the
Nordic countries
2003 Association for History and Computing
Conference University of Tromsø

Gunnar Thorvaldsen Registreringssentral for
historiske data http//www.rhd.uit.no/
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Infant mortality in a number of countries
1801-1900
Deceased 0-1 years by 100 live births
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Infant mortality in Sweden 1848-1852
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Infant mortality in Norway 1856-60
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IMR in Norway 1876-80
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Denmark 1850-54
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Infant mortality in northern Finland, Sweden and
Norway around 1860
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IMR around1920
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IMR by province
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CDR and IMR
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Norway and Sweden
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Dead 0-1 in Norway by age in months
Percent of live births 1876-1898
Source Johannessen (1902)
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Dead aged 0-1 in Norway 1876-1898 relative to
live births
The country
Rural Towns
Legitimate Illegitimate
Black boys Red girls
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Dead infants by month of year 1894-97
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References
DenmarkAnne 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/inh
ph/journal/ Classic work on neonatology
http//www.neonatology.org/classics/
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www.neonatology.org/classics
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Wetnurse
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A History of the Breast
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Iceland 1920
Survival in days of breast-fed and artificially
fed infants in a fishing village in Iceland
1915-1925
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Biometric test - Norway
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Causes of death
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IMR, ethnicity and strata
Anders Brändström, Demographic Database, Umeå
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