Causes of Child Mortality in Yekaterinburg at the Turn of the 20th Century: Classification Experience
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2020

This article aims to identify the main causes of child mortality in late imperial urban Russia with reference to Yekaterinburg, a peripheral but economically developed and rapidly growing regional centre characterised by the typical problems of European cities of the turn of the twentieth century, such as overpopulation, very basic sanitation, and lack of medical personnel and infrastructure. The research is done with reference to records of child deaths from the church books of two Orthodox par