Reporting Infant Deaths at the Szczecin Civil Records Office in the Late 19th Century: General Conclusions
Reporting Infant Deaths at the Szczecin Civil Records Office in the Late 19th Century: General Conclusions
Author(s): Dawid DziubaSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Demography and human biology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: people reporting; infant mortality; deaths; historical demography; 19th century; parish registers; Civil Registry Office records; population history; social history; Szczecin; Poland
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze the structural characteristics of the information held in Civil Registry Office records on people reporting the death of an infant. Some fifteen thousand death records held at the CRO in Szczecin (Stettin) at the end of the 19th century were examined in order to answer the fundamental question of what research information is provided by people reporting the death of an infant. The research shows that despite the sparse information in the CRO files on people reporting infant deaths, interesting relationships can be observed. These include professional or family ties between the notifiers and the parents of the deceased infants.
Journal: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
- Issue Year: 45/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 151-173
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English