Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality

This paper introduces a special issue of The History of the Family on sanitation and urban mortality. The special issue contains papers which focus on the impact of sanitary reforms on mortality change in Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and England and Wales. The current paper outlines the...

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Published in:The history of the family 2019-04, Vol.24 (2), p.207-226
Main Authors: Harris, Bernard, Helgertz, Jonas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Historia
Historia och arkeologi
History
History and Archaeology
Humaniora och konst
Humanities
Methodological problems
Mortality
public health
Reforms
Sanitation
Urban areas
Urban decline
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Summary:This paper introduces a special issue of The History of the Family on sanitation and urban mortality. The special issue contains papers which focus on the impact of sanitary reforms on mortality change in Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and England and Wales. The current paper outlines the main features of the debate over the causes of mortality change and the role played by sanitary reforms in this. It then highlights some of the methodological and other challenges posed by the definition of 'urban' areas, the identification of relevant sanitary reforms, and the choice of dependent variables. The paper then proceeds to summarise the main features of the individual papers before drawing some conclusions for future research.
ISSN:1081-602X
1873-5398
DOI:10.1080/1081602X.2019.1605923