Quality of Life and Mortality Among Children: Historical Perspectives [Paperback]

This?birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information?from 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 and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The?briefs examines the results to consider the impact of?childrens deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and?continuities across the centuries.List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Introduction.- Chapter 1. Mortality.- Chapter 2. Quality of Life.- Chapter 3. Death of Children in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.- Chapter 4. Childrens Mortality in England and Wales, 1838  1902.- Chapter 5. Birth, Life, and Death in Dublin 1649 - 1798.- Chapter?6. Childrens Mortality in Ireland 1864  1902. Chapter?7. Mortality Among Children.- References.-

This?briefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information?from 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 ofl£#