child mortality. A second group, of “outsiders”, were prevented from marrying. Many, especially the males, left the … community; those who stayed contributed to growing illegitimacy and associated levels of infant and child mortality that were …

Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … lack of detailed information on how well relief efforts performed at a local level. Excess mortality ranged from one … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality …