Article ID: CBB000930682

Causes of Death in Nineteenth-Century New England: The Dominance of Infectious Disease (2008)

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This is a response to the recent contribution by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys on epidemics and infections in the nineteenth century. We present data from New England showing that infectious disease deaths were in the majority in the nineteenth century. In the data we examine, the epidemiologic transition is intact.

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Description Response to: JournalArticle; Flurin Condrau; Michael Worboys; Second Opinions: Epidemics and... (2007) [930681]


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Article Condrau, Flurin; Worboys, Michael (2007) Second Opinions: Epidemics and Infections in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Social History of Medicine (p. 147). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Spence, Christine
Read, Ian
Razzell, Peter E.
Lukáš Novotný
M. Cristina Amoretti
Valérie Tóthová
Concepts
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Epidemiology
Medicine
Mortality
Public health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
London (England)
England
North America
Brazil
New England (U.S.)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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