Volume 33 - Article 36 | Pages 1035–1046  

The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850−1912

By Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Christopher Robinson, Alan C. Swedlund, Douglas Anderton

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