The evolution of mortality and mortality causes in the county of El Beal (Murcia), 1880-1970

Authors

  • Ángel Pascual Martínez Soto
  • Miguel A. Pérez de Perceval Verde
  • Domingo Navarro Ortiz
Keywords: mortality, demographic transition, diseases, health transition, El Beal (Murcia), 19th-20th centuries

Abstract

This paper focuses on the mortality variations in a lead mining area, where production is organised in small mining societies. The area is Cartagena-La Unión mountain range, in Murcia, a main coalfield in Spanish lead production. This work analyses the demographic transition process, characterised by the area’s specificities: high mortality rates (mainly infant mortality rate, according to the working conditions, implying high infant labour) and very bad housing and urban infrastructures. Those conditions would imply overmortality rates, above the national and regional averages, and persisting morbidity because of infections. This work also analyses the demographic evolution, showing a modernisation process, even knowing that the mining producers suffered a crisis in the analysed county. In that sense, the difficulties faced on this research to elaborate reliable rates, considering the high migration rates, in order to compare them with other areas, have been remarked.

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Martínez Soto, Ángel P., Pérez de Perceval Verde, M. A., & Navarro Ortiz, D. (2004). The evolution of mortality and mortality causes in the county of El Beal (Murcia), 1880-1970. Areas. International Social Science Journal, (24), 135–155. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/areas/article/view/118451
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No. 24 (2004): Las series vitales en la demografía histórica
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