Causes of Death in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Québec as Recorded in the Parish Registers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yves Landry (corresponding author), Rénald Lessard |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 49-57 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-5440 • E-ISSN: 1940-1906 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01615440.1996.10112729 |
| OpenAlex | W2091253492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
The exhaustive compilation of parish registers of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Quebec by the Programme de Recherche en Demographie Historique of the Universite de Montreal...offers the possibility of analyzing the stated causes of death in 208876 burial certificates. Given the usual deficiencies that we have mentioned what is the value of this information? How does it affect the distribution of the deceased persons according to sex age and time of death? The first part of this article answers these questions; the second part looks into the case of the register of the parish of Lachine near Montreal in which the cure recorded almost all causes of death during a period of twenty-five years (1681-1706). (EXCERPT
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2018 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |