Mortality Trends in Philadelphia: Age- and Cause-Specific Death Rates 1870

Mortality Trends in Philadelphia: Age- and Cause-Specific Death Rates 1870–1930

Published:1982-02-01 Issue:1 Volume:19 Page:97-123
ISSN:0070-3370
Container-title:Demography
language:en
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Author:

Condran Gretchen A.¹,Cheney Rose A.¹

Affiliation:

1. Philadelphia Social History Project and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Abstract

Abstract This article examines the decline in mortality which occurred in Philadelphia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Age- and cause-specific mortality rates accounting for the decline are isolated and the relative importance of several variables in explaining the reduction of overall mortality levels is assessed. By using small areas within the city we are able to establish the impact of particular innovations on specific causes of death.

Publisher

Duke University Press

Subject

Demography

Link

http://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article-pdf/19/1/97/905275/97condran.pdf

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