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The Demographic and Transport Evidence The Demographic and Transport Evidence
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The Biomedical Evidence US The Biomedical Evidence US
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US Army Morbidity Data, 1830s US Army Morbidity Data, 1830s
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Census Mortality Data, 1850 to 1900 Census Mortality Data, 1850 to 1900
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The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Infants and Young Children in the Nineteenth Century The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Infants and Young Children in the Nineteenth Century
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Concluding Thoughts on Growth and the Spread of Diseases Concluding Thoughts on Growth and the Spread of Diseases
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7 Evidence on the Spread of Diseases in Nineteenth-Century America
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Published:September 2011
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Abstract
This chapter presents the biomedical and historical proofs that population growth, economic growth, and other developments influenced the spread of diseases, increased mortality and morbidity, and long-run American economic growth during the nineteenth century. Data are gathered from the population growth, the population density and urbanization, the developments in transportation related to population changes, and the prevalence of infectious diseases across states and time. The chapter focuses on how the nineteenth-century data on the impact of diseases remained consistent with that of the past centuries. It also presents proofs on how the economic development in the nineteenth-century America became consistent with the disease and population model of economic growth, and similar to that of the past as it paved the way for the spread and perpetuation of pathogens throughout most of the century.
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