70
Views
15
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

The Reporting and Classification of Causes of Death in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

The Example of Sheffield

Pages 58-71 | Published online: 29 Jul 2010

References

  • Cullen , M. J. 1974 . The making of the civil registration act of 1836 . Journal of Ecclesiastical History , 25 : 39 – 59 .
  • Eyler , J. M. 1976 . Mortality statistics and Victorian health policy: Program and criticism . Bulletin of the History of Medicine , 50 : 335 – 55 .
  • Eyler , J. M. 1979 . Victorian social medicine. The ideas and methods of William Farr , Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press .
  • Farr , W. 1839 . First annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) . Letter to the registrar-general
  • Farr , W. 1842 . Fourth annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO . Letter to the registrar-general
  • Farr , W. 1856 . Sixteenth annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO . Letter to the registrar-general on the causes of death in England
  • Farr , W. 1860 . “ Letter to the registrar-general on the causes of death in England ” . In Twenty-first annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO .
  • Farr , W. 1866 . “ Letter to the registrar-general on the causes of death in England ” . In Twenty-seventh annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO .
  • Glass , D. V. 1973 . Numbering the people: The eighteenth-century population controversy and the development of census and vital statistics in Britain , Farnborough : Saxton House .
  • Hall , J. C. 1857 . On the prevention and treatment of the Sheffield grinder's disease , Sheffield .
  • Hall , J. C. 1865 . The effects of certain Sheffield trades on life and health . Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences , : 382 – 402 .
  • Hardy , A. 1994 . Death is the cure of all diseases: Using the General Register Office cause of death statistics for 1837–1920 . Social History of Medicine , 7 ( 3 ) : 472 – 92 .
  • Holland , G. C. 1841 . The mortality, sufferings and diseases of grinders , Sheffield .
  • Holland , G. C. 1843 . Diseases of the lungs from mechanical causes and inquiries into the condition of artisans exposed to the inhalation of dust , Sheffield .
  • Kintner , H. J. 1986 . Classifying causes of death during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries: The case of German infant mortality . Historical Methods , 19 : 45 – 54 .
  • Loudon , I. 1992 . Death in childbirth: An international study of maternal care and mortality, 1800–1950 , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • Luckin , W. 1980 . Death and survival in the city: Approaches to the history of disease . Urban History Yearbook , : 53 – 62 .
  • McKeown , T. 1976 . The modern rise of population , London : Edward Arnold .
  • McKeown , T. and Record , R. G. 1962 . Reasons for the decline of mortality in England and Wales during the nineteenth century . Population Studies , 16 : 94 – 122 .
  • Mercer , A. 1990 . Disease, mortality and population in transition: Epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon , Leicester : Leicester University Press .
  • Pelling , M. 1978 . Cholera, fever and English medicine , 1825 – 1865 . Oxford : Oxford University Press .
  • Pollard , S. 1959 . A history of labour in Sheffield , Liverpool : Liverpool University Press .
  • Registrar-General . 1839 . First annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO .
  • Registrar-General . 1872 . Thirty-third annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO .
  • Registrar-General . 1883 . Forty-fourth annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in England , London : HMSO .
  • Rumsey , H. W. 1865/1866 . The fallacies of our sanitary statistics . Social Science Review and Journal of the Sciences , : 358 – 63 . 403 – 14 . 481 – 95 . n.s. 5:21–43
  • Select Committee on Death Certification. P.P. 1893–4 . Annual report of the health of Sheffield for 1875 , Vol. 2 , 195 – 607 . Sheffield Medical Officer of Health . 1876. Sheffield
  • Select Committee on Death Certification . 1877 . Annual report of the health of Sheffield for 1876 , Sheffield .
  • Smith , D. 1982 . Conflict and compromise: Class formation in English society, 1830–1914. A comparative study of Birmingham and Sheffield , London : Routledge and Kegan Paul .
  • Williams , N. J. 1989 . “Infant and child mortality in urban areas of nineteenth-century England and Wales: A record-linkage study.” , Ph.D. diss. University of Liverpool .
  • Williams , N. J. 1992 . Death in its season: Class, environment and the mortality of infants in nineteenth-century Sheffield . Social History of Medicine , 5 ( 1 ) : 71 – 94 .
  • Williams , N. J. and Galley , C. 1995 . Urban-rural differentials in infant mortality in Victorian England . Population Studies , 49 : 401 – 20 .
  • Woods , R. I. and Woodward , J. H. , eds. 1984 . Urban disease and mortality in nineteenth-century England , London : Batsford Academic .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.