Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:660

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX660

Authors:
Feliu Villaró, Francesc

Abstract:
We performed a systematic study of sacramental books of births and deaths of the file of the Parish of Sant Salvador del Vendrell in the nineteenth century, with three objectives: study of mortality, study of the documented causes of death and study of personnel healthcare.We have obtained 33,150 records 18,547 baptisms and 14,603 deaths. The overall mortality was a 78.7% with a predominance of children (52.4%) than adults (47.5%). For gender, highlights the mortality of children (52.2%) than girls (45.7%), and in the adult men (51.1%) than women (48.8%). There were two periods of high mortality: in the years 1808-11 by the War 'French', where adult mortality prevails, and the period 1854-58 with the cholera epidemic, dominated by infant mortality. Only causes of death are documented in 658 records (4.51% of detahs), classified as violent (12.48%), accident (12.48%) and disease (75.19%). 63 Physicians have appeared in 176 records (0.53%), which include 14 doctors, 12 pharmacists and eight midwives.