The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850−1912

Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Douglas Anderton, Alan C. Swedlund and Christopher Robinson
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Susan Hautaniemi Leonard: University of Michigan
Douglas Anderton: University of South Carolina
Alan C. Swedlund: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Christopher Robinson: University of South Carolina

Demographic Research, 2015, vol. 33, issue 36, 1035-1046

Abstract: Background: Previous research suggests individual-level socioeconomic circumstances and resources may be especially salient influences on mortality within the broader context of social, economic, and environmental factors affecting urban 19th century mortality. Objective: We sought to test individual-level socioeconomic effects on mortality from infectious and often epidemic diseases in the context of an emerging New England industrial mill town. Methods: We analyze mortality data from comprehensive death records and a sample of death records linked to census data, for an emergent industrial New England town, to analyze infectious mortality and model socioeconomic effects using Poisson rate regression. Results: Despite our expectations that individual resources might be especially salient in the harsh mortality setting of a crowded, rapidly growing, emergent, industrial mill town with high levels of impoverishment, infectious mortality was not significantly lowered by individual socio-economic status or resources.

Keywords: epidemic mortality; New England; socioeconomic effects; Poisson regression; industrial town; immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.33.36

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