Population growth and mortality Part I

The author examines the causes of the rapid growth in population that occurred in India following World War I. His primary thesis is that the decline in mortality that led to a population explosion was not caused by better material or medical conditions; it primarily reflects involuntary causes particularly the impact on human immunities of changes in disease ecology. In this first part the author focuses on mortality in the 50-year period from 1871-1921. He concludes that remained high for the fifty years 1872-1921 for traditional reasons of ill-health poverty malnutrition insanitation ineffective medical care scarcity and famine--immemorial facets of the human condition in India. But death-rates increased because changes in disease ecology maximised exposure to new disease microbes among a vulnerable poorly immune population. (EXCERPT)

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