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Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
C-3 FAM35 Children mortality in European Institutions
Room C
Networks: Education and Childhood , Family and Demography Chair: Kirsi Warpula
Organizers: Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Kirsi Warpula Discussants: -
Carlo Corsini : Infant abandonment in Florence, 1840-1842
Two backbones of this study are utilized: the nominative Tuscan census of 1841 and the nominative sheets of abandoned children in the Foundling Hospital of Florence during the 1840-1842 years. When automatically linked with the census data and birth and death data the foundlings source allows to analyze several aspects ... (Show more)
Two backbones of this study are utilized: the nominative Tuscan census of 1841 and the nominative sheets of abandoned children in the Foundling Hospital of Florence during the 1840-1842 years. When automatically linked with the census data and birth and death data the foundlings source allows to analyze several aspects of the social history of Tuscany around the middle of the XIX century, as well as the fundamental elements of infant mortality. For the case of legitimate foundlings and foundlings falsely abandoned as illegitimate (and then subsequently reclaimed as legitimate by their parents), the process of nominative linkage constitutes an invaluable source for analyzing: a) the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of families that abandon their children and the factors that "determine" abandonment; b) the comparative study of infant mortality between legitimate and abandoned children. In addition, the "wet-nurse industry" can be studied by linking data about the women who worked as wet nurses during 1840-42, listed in the foundling home records, to the census and population registry data. Analysis of this sort can reveal the geography of wet-nursing as well as its demographic and social aspects, including the type and economic situation of the wet nurse's family and the conditioning effect of wet-nursing on infant mortality. (Show less)

Vicente Pérez-Moreda : "How many foundlings were abandoned in Spain?"
As a result of the author's recent research and current state of the art on the subject, the paper can show a provisory evaluation of the global amount of the phenomenon of children's abandonment in Spain from early 16th to late 20th centuries. It takes into account the total number ... (Show more)
As a result of the author's recent research and current state of the art on the subject, the paper can show a provisory evaluation of the global amount of the phenomenon of children's abandonment in Spain from early 16th to late 20th centuries. It takes into account the total number (ca. 75) of foundlings hospitals at the end of 18th century, as much as the offical number of public institutions for abandonned children's care in the 19th century (ca. 150).

The paper could include some indexes of survival for children of some Spanish hospitals, showing the different conditions of them and differences in their administration, nursing care and management along the time and geographic regions. (Show less)

Diego Ramiro-Fariñas : Childhood mortality and foundlings in Madrid, 1900-1930.
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. (Show less)



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