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9780521782548

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521782548

  • ISBN10:

    0521782546

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-10-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancy. But Robert Woods also considers the variable quality of the Victorian registration system; the changing role of what Robert Malthus termed the preventive check; variations in occupational mortality and the development of the twentieth-century class mortality gradient; and the effects of urbanisation associated with the significance of distinctive disease environments. The volume also illustrates the fundamental importance of geographical variations between urban and rural areas. This invaluable reference tool is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full colour.

Table of Contents

List of figures
ix
List of tables
xix
Preface xxiii
Bricks without straw, bones without flesh
1(30)
True facts
3(7)
Systems
10(5)
Transitions
15(6)
Time and space
21(10)
Vital statistics
31(40)
Contents of the Annual Reports
33(5)
The quality of registration
38(9)
Detection without correction
47(24)
Whatever happened to the preventive check?
71(39)
The European marriage pattern in the nineteenth century
72(9)
Nuptiality patterns in England and Wales
81(7)
The effects of urbanisation, migration and occupational specialisation on nuptiality
88(7)
Local studies
95(6)
The influence of marriage patterns on illegitimate fertility
101(6)
The Victorian marriage pattern and its antecedents
107(3)
Family limitation
110(60)
Transition theory
112(2)
Social diffusion
114(8)
Contraceptive revolution?
122(2)
Coale and Trussell: stopping or spacing?
124(16)
Illegitimate fertility
140(3)
Demographic balance
143(1)
Preconditions
144(6)
Empirical relationships
150(15)
Why there are still no firm conclusions
165(5)
The laws of vitality
170(33)
Age
170(20)
Farr's law
190(13)
Mortality by occupation and social group
203(44)
The official reporting of occupational mortality in Victorian England
210(4)
Mortality among occupations
214(16)
Two dangerous trades: medicine and mining
230(10)
The social class gradient of male mortality--the interplay of occupational, economic, environmental and selective factors
240(7)
The origins of the secular decline of childhood mortality
247(63)
The characteristics of childhood mortality in Victorian England and Wales
250(30)
The childhood mortality problem: contemporary and recent approaches
280(15)
Fertility and infant mortality
295(5)
Poverty, female education, fertility and childhood mortality
300(4)
Some preliminary conclusions
304(6)
Places and causes
310(50)
Causes of death
312(5)
Crowding
317(8)
Water
325(6)
Air
331(1)
Phthisis
332(9)
Composite disease environments
341(3)
The McKeown interpretation further confounded
344(16)
The demographic consequences of urbanisation
360(21)
The transformation of the English and other demographic regimes
381(19)
Conclusions and unresolved conundrums
400(11)
Bibliography 411(29)
Index 440

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