Säuglingssterblichkeit in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert

Infant mortality in Germany in the 19th century

Developments in infant mortality in Germany have previously only been documented in
a fragmentary fashion for the 19th century as a whole, and only on a small scale for
the period prior to 1871. For the first time, this paper lays a solid statistical
foundation by reprocessing the figures assembled by the German states of that time.
The reconstructed national statistical se…