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Contributors; Chapter 1: New Approaches toßDeath inßCities During theßHealth Transition: AnßIntroduction; 1.1 Heuristic Challenges, Scientific Challenges; 1.2 Mortality Differentials Within Towns; 1.3 "Urban Graveyards," "Urban Penalty," or theßUrban-ƯRural Mortality Gap fromßtheßLong-Term Perspective; 1.4 Slums inßtheßPast andßToday; 1.5 Eleven Contributions toßKnowledge andßTheories; 1.6 Death inßCities During Health Transitions; References; Part I: Mortality Within the City: Historical Europe.
Chapter 2: Understanding Infant Mortality inßtheßCity: Exploring Registration andßCompositional Effects. Madrid, 1905-19062.1 Introduction; 2.2 What Drives theßUrban Penalty? Old andßNew Explanations; 2.3 The Longitudinal Historical Dataset forßtheßCity ofßMadrid andßtheßFoundling Hospital ofßMadrid Database; 2.4 Effects ofßMiss-Registration onßtheßEstimation ofßInfant Mortality; Migrant Deaths; Other Sources ofßMiss-Registration; 2.5 Compositional Effects inßUrban Infant Mortality: Migrants andßFoundlings; The Presence ofßFoundlings inßtheßCity ofßMadrid.
Migrant Women Delivering inßtheßCity: Health Selection or Worse Living Conditions?2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Environment, Housing, andßInfant Mortality: Udine, 1807-1815; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Background; 3.3 Sources; Housing Registers; The Napoleonic Civil Registers; 3.4 Udine at theßStart ofßtheßNineteenth Century; 3.5 Territorial Diffusion andßSocio-Economic Characteristics ofßInfant Mortality; 3.6 The Determinants ofßSpatial Distribution ofßInfant Mortality inßUdine; 3.7 Infant Mortality Clusters; 3.8 Conclusions; References.
Chapter 4: Residential Mobility andßChild Mortality inßEarly Twentieth Century Belfast4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Mobility andßHousing; 4.3 Early Age Mortality andßHousing; Appendix; References; Chapter 5: Micro-Analysis of Mortality in Urban Areas. The Parish of Oliveira in Guimarães, in Northern Portugal Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 5.1 Data andßSetting; Sources; Parish Records; The róis de confessados (status animarum); Demographic-Genealogical Databases; Guimarães Between theßNineteenth andßTwentieth Centuries.
Comparative Study ofßtheßPopulation ofßtheßOliveira Parish inßtheßLast Quarter ofßtheßNineteenth Century5.2 The Reconstruction ofßLife Expectancies inßGuimarães; Life Expectancy atß30 ofßIndividuals Born Betweenß1750 andß1829, Whose Death WasßRecorded; Life Expectancy atßBirth ofßIndividuals Born Betweenß1835 andß1864 inßStable Families; Life Expectancy atßBirth forßIndividuals Born Betweenß1881 andß1899; 5.3 Final Notes; References; Part II: Urban Mortality in Transition; Chapter 6: Infant and Early Childhood Mortality in a Context of Transitional Fertility: Geneva 1800-1900.
Chapter 2: Understanding Infant Mortality inßtheßCity: Exploring Registration andßCompositional Effects. Madrid, 1905-19062.1 Introduction; 2.2 What Drives theßUrban Penalty? Old andßNew Explanations; 2.3 The Longitudinal Historical Dataset forßtheßCity ofßMadrid andßtheßFoundling Hospital ofßMadrid Database; 2.4 Effects ofßMiss-Registration onßtheßEstimation ofßInfant Mortality; Migrant Deaths; Other Sources ofßMiss-Registration; 2.5 Compositional Effects inßUrban Infant Mortality: Migrants andßFoundlings; The Presence ofßFoundlings inßtheßCity ofßMadrid.
Migrant Women Delivering inßtheßCity: Health Selection or Worse Living Conditions?2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Environment, Housing, andßInfant Mortality: Udine, 1807-1815; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Background; 3.3 Sources; Housing Registers; The Napoleonic Civil Registers; 3.4 Udine at theßStart ofßtheßNineteenth Century; 3.5 Territorial Diffusion andßSocio-Economic Characteristics ofßInfant Mortality; 3.6 The Determinants ofßSpatial Distribution ofßInfant Mortality inßUdine; 3.7 Infant Mortality Clusters; 3.8 Conclusions; References.
Chapter 4: Residential Mobility andßChild Mortality inßEarly Twentieth Century Belfast4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Mobility andßHousing; 4.3 Early Age Mortality andßHousing; Appendix; References; Chapter 5: Micro-Analysis of Mortality in Urban Areas. The Parish of Oliveira in Guimarães, in Northern Portugal Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 5.1 Data andßSetting; Sources; Parish Records; The róis de confessados (status animarum); Demographic-Genealogical Databases; Guimarães Between theßNineteenth andßTwentieth Centuries.
Comparative Study ofßtheßPopulation ofßtheßOliveira Parish inßtheßLast Quarter ofßtheßNineteenth Century5.2 The Reconstruction ofßLife Expectancies inßGuimarães; Life Expectancy atß30 ofßIndividuals Born Betweenß1750 andß1829, Whose Death WasßRecorded; Life Expectancy atßBirth ofßIndividuals Born Betweenß1835 andß1864 inßStable Families; Life Expectancy atßBirth forßIndividuals Born Betweenß1881 andß1899; 5.3 Final Notes; References; Part II: Urban Mortality in Transition; Chapter 6: Infant and Early Childhood Mortality in a Context of Transitional Fertility: Geneva 1800-1900.