Studies on urban mortality have repeatedly named health or charity institutions as an example of urban penalty on mortality. The concentration of these institutions, in places where they could reach and benefit a larger proportion of the population, represented a penalty for the cities in which they were based. Using ...
(Show more)Studies on urban mortality have repeatedly named health or charity institutions as an example of urban penalty on mortality. The concentration of these institutions, in places where they could reach and benefit a larger proportion of the population, represented a penalty for the cities in which they were based. Using a very rich source, the Register of the Foundling Hospital of Madrid, the Civil Register and Census of Madrid and other published sources for the first third of the XX century, we will be able to analyze, at district level, between other variables, in which way foundlings mortality affected overall mortality in Madrid, which were the mortality patterns by age and causes of deaths of the institutionalized and non institutionalized population, which were the morbidity patterns of those inside the foundling hospital in relation with those which rose in the villages and with rural mortality of that period and the socio-demographic profiles and origin of those mothers abandoning the children, and which was the effect over the overall mortality of the city of those deaths of migrants.
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