INFANT MORTALITY OF THE POPULATION OF THE TOWNS OF FRYDEK AND MISTEK AT THE TIME OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATION FROM THE OLD REGIME TO THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE REGIME

• Authors: Lipovski R.
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Frequent deaths of children deeply influenced the general death rate in the past. The curve of infant mortality nearly created the curve of general mortality, because very many new-borns died during the first year of life. This was affected by the standard of breastfeeding in a given society, so the rate of infant mortality was markedly different locally. The infant mortality in towns of Frydek and Mistek kept above 500 per mille until the mid-19th century and it droped below this limit as late as the second half of the 19th century, though slightly. In Frydek, the perinatal mortality was lower, but the foetal mortality was higher than in Mistek. Causes of deaths were taken into account too, nevertheless only within the classification of diseases used at that time, it means especially the rate of various accidents, including abortions, the extent of influence that infectious diseases and avitaminosis exerted on the death rate.

Keywords

EN

DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historická demografie (Historical Demography)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 31
• Pages: 21-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lipovski R.

• R. Lipovski, Filozoficka fakulta Ostravske university, Realni 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA05179837