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Death and the Metropolis - Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830 (Hardcover)
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Death and the Metropolis - Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
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Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic
patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century',
concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital
fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based
on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of
Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs
the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis.
The data are analysed within the framework of a structural model of
mortality change comprising the proximate determinants of exposure
to, and resistance against, infectious agents on the the part of
populations. Within this framework a model is established
describing the specific demographic and epidemiological
characteristics of early modern metropolitan centres. The evidence
indicates that mortality in London was much higher than in other
settlements in England for most of the period, but declined steeply
in the later eighteenth century. This apparently reflected changes
in exposure to infections.
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