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Studies in the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain and Ireland

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Thomas E. Jordan

    1. University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA

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  • Investigates personal and numerical aspects of death among children across three centuries
  • Draws attention to the reaction of parents to the death of a child
  • Draws upon data that demonstrates that Quality of Life provides a useful approach for understanding mortality among children?

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Housing as Quality of Life: Dublin, 1798–1821

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Anthropometric Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875–1883

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 9-17

  4. Mars and Hygeia: The Application of Victorian Army Data on Height to the Quality of Health in the British Population

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 19-28

  5. The Great Contrast: Factor Analysis Applied to Quality of Life in the Era of the Irish Famine

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 29-33

  6. Victorian Economic Change and Heights: A Note on Lagged Effects

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 35-45

  7. A Quality of Life: Accessing Seventeenth Century Data—The Example of Dublin

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 47-59

  8. An Overview

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 61-65
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This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The book examines the results to consider the impact of children’s deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.

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  • University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA

    Thomas E. Jordan

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