Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Montreal: Geographic Pathways of Contagion

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Title
Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Montreal: Geographic Pathways of Contagion
Abstract
A one-year (1881) snap-shot of the causes of disease-related mortality in Montreal among the city's French-speaking Catholic, English-speaking (Irish) Catholic, and English-speaking (British and Scottish) Protestant populations. The authors reveal the causes as resulting from high levels of residential segregation by ethnicity and income, spatial correlation of environmental hazards (residential overcrowding, poor municipal drainage systems, proximity of outhouses and horse manure piles to tenements, etc.), and constraints on exit (moving) from neighbourhoods and streets of high disease risk. The authors also discuss the ethno-cultural strategies that differentiated French-speaking Catholic and English-speaking (Irish) Catholic populations of the same economic class that resulted in fewer Irish Catholic children dying within the first years of their lives, but saw proportionately more Irish Catholic male adults die from disease and job-related accidents.
Publication
Population Studies
Volume
Vol. 65
Issue
no. 2
Pages
157-181
Date
2011
Language
en
Citation
Thornton, Patricia, and Sherry Olson. “Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Montreal: Geographic Pathways of Contagion.” Population Studies Vol. 65, no. 2 (2011): 157–181.
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