@article{777143,
      recid = {777143},
      author = {Jordan, Thomas E.},
      title = {Quality of life and mortality in seventeenth century  London and Dublin /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (76 pages).},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {This book provides an examination of the quantitative and  qualitative factors affecting mortality in two major cities  of the British Isles: London and Dublin. It covers a scale  from individuals mentioned by name to aggregates of  mortality data in the Bills of Mortality. Focusing on the  Seventeenth Century, the book pays attention to the Great  Plague of 1665, and to earlier years in which epidemics  decimated populations. To the average person living in the  seventeenth century, life was a series of challenges.  Mortality among the young was high, and for those who  survived early childhood, death in their fifties was fairly  typical. Men and women might aspire to a longer life span,  but even the healthiest practices were no guarantee when  the overall quality of life was low. With fatal illnesses  exemplified by typhoid fever on the one hand, and the  arrival of yersinia pestis - plague through ports on the  Mediterranean at regular intervals of several years, on the  other, mortality became a foreseeable event.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/777143},
}