Using weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and … mortality as the city developed. Our results show that both warm and cold weeks were associated with elevated mortality in the …. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths–equal to 0 …

of antitoxin led to a substantial decline in diphtheria mortality rates and increased life expectancy at birth. Exposure …

Using weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and … mortality as the city developed. Our results show that both warm and cold weeks were associated with elevated mortality in the …. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths-equal to 0 …

millions of immigrants crowded into dense American cities, contemporaries blamed the high urban mortality penalty on the newest … mortality. We find that cities with more missing immigrants experienced sharp declines in deaths from infectious diseases from … the mid-1920s until the late 1930s. The blame for these negative mortality effects lies not with the immigrants, but on …