@article{Leonard_33_36,
author = {Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi and Robinson, Christopher and Swedlund, Alan C. and Anderton, Douglas},
title={{The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850−1912}},
journal = {Demographic Research},
volume = {33},
number = {36},
pages = {1035--1046},
doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2015.33.36},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Background: Previous research suggests individual-level socioeconomic circumstances and resources may be especially salient influences on mortality within the broader context of social, economic, and environmental factors affecting urban 19th century mortality. 

Objective: We sought to test individual-level socioeconomic effects on mortality from infectious and often epidemic diseases in the context of an emerging New England industrial mill town. 

Methods: We analyze mortality data from comprehensive death records and a sample of death records linked to census data, for an emergent industrial New England town, to analyze infectious mortality and model socioeconomic effects using Poisson rate regression. 

Results: Despite our expectations that individual resources might be especially salient in the harsh mortality setting of a crowded, rapidly growing, emergent, industrial mill town with high levels of impoverishment, infectious mortality was not significantly lowered by individual socio-economic status or resources. },
URL = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/},
eprint = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/33-36.pdf}
}