TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi
A1  - Robinson, Christopher
A1  - Swedlund, Alan C.
A1  - Anderton, Douglas
T1  - The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850−1912
Y1  - 2015/11/12
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 1035
EP  - 1046
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2015.33.36
VL  - 33
IS  - 36
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/33-36.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/33-36.pdf
L3  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/files/readme.33-36.txt
L3  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/36/files/demographic-research.33-36.zip
N2  - 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. 

ER  -