Dissertation Research: Patterns of Mortality in Two Nineteenth Century Poorhouses of Western New York

这是一个博士论文改进奖。 该项目将调查社会经济地位、疾病特异性死亡率和死亡率下降之间的关系。 这将通过比较伊利和尼亚加拉县济贫院及其各自在纽约州西部的一般人口之间的人口变量来实现。 现有的数据跨度近100年，可以对这些机构从19世纪20年代末开业到20世纪世纪第二个十年停止运营期间的死亡率进行完整的研究。 这项研究将有助于对特定疾病死亡率转变和死亡率下降的研究，使人们能够深入了解在人口研究中基本上被忽视的人口（制度化的穷人）。 此外，这两个县的历史济贫院记录为研究1850年之前的死亡率提供了数据。 这一点很重要，因为在世纪的前几十年，几乎没有州或全国范围的数据可以用来研究死亡率。 这项研究也是对人类学人口学的一项重要贡献，因为它解决了特定疾病死亡率和死亡率下降模式的社会经济差异问题。

This is a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement award. The project will investigate the relationships between socio-economic status, disease specific mortality, and mortality decline. This will be accomplished through the comparison of demographic variables between the Erie and Niagara County Poorhouses and their respective general populations in western New York state. The data available span nearly one hundred years, allowing for a complete study of mortality from the time these institutions opened in the late 1820's until they ceased to operate in the second decade of the twentieth century. This study will contribute to the research on disease-specific mortality transition and mortality decline by providing insight into a population (the institutionalized poor), which has been largely overlooked in demographic studies. Also, the historic poorhouse records of these two counties provide data to study mortality prior to 1850. This is important because there are few state or nationwide data available to study mortality during the early decades of the nineteenth century. This research is also an important contribution to anthropological demography in that it addresses the issue of socio-economic differences in patterns of disease specific mortality and mortality decline.