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Infant Vulnerability in Three Cultural Settings in Montreal in 1880
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Infant Vulnerability in Three Cultural Settings in Montreal in 1880
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The author notes that because infant mortality is a recognized indicator of environmental conditions and standard of living, she selected it as a potentially meaningful measure of the human costs of inequality in Montreal in the second half of the nineteenth century. She points out that like other Victorian cities undergoing rapid growth and industrialization, Montreal was powerfully stratified by social class and divided into three major cultural communities-French-speaking Catholic (over half the population), English-speaking Protestant, and Irish Catholic. Other groups amounted to less than two percent. The several social classes and cultural communities occupied distinct spaces and habitats. As she argues in this paper, the several communities had distinct demographic characteristics and, by 1880, somewhat distinctive demographic behaviours.
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Infant and Child Mortality in the Past
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New York
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Oxford University Press
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1997
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216-241
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en
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978-0-19-828995-1
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Thornton, Patricia, and Sherry Olson. “Infant Vulnerability in Three Cultural Settings in Montreal in 1880.” In Infant and Child Mortality in the Past, edited by Alain Bideau, Bernard Desjardins, and Héctor Pérez-Brignoli, 216–241. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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