Full Description
Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at the two ends of the Eurasian continent by taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representatives of the West-European and Chinese mortality regimes. Are these cases as different as the low and high pressure contrast implies? The volume opens with a cluster of chapters dealing with long term trends in mortality and the accompanying changes in causes of death (Chapters 1 through 4 ). Both Taiwan and the Netherlands witnessed steady improvements in public health, disease prevention, medical care, and living conditions in the periods described; these trends are discussed in Chapters 5 though 8. The third cluster of chapters analyzes the factors affecting maternal and infant mortality (Chapters 9 through 12). Finally, in Chapter 13, the accuracy of Taiwan's censuses and death reporting is assessed.
Contents
Contents - 5[-]Introduction - 8[-]1 Trends in mortality and the evolution of the cause-of-death pattern in the Netherlands: 1850-20001 - 18[-]2 Trends in mortality and causes of death in Japanese colonial period Taiwan - 46[-]3 Mortality in the Netherlands: general development and regional differences - 82[-]4 Regional and ethnic variation inmortality in Japanese colonial period Taiwan - 100[-]5 An outline of socio-medical care in the Netherlands, 19th and early 20th centuries - 154[-]6 An overview of public health development in Japan-ruled Taiwan - 166[-]7 The demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands,18th-19th centuries - 184[-]8 Anti-malaria policy in Colonial Taiwan - 204[-]9 Maternal mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 - 230[-]10 Maternal depletion and infant mortality - 276[-]11 The massacre of the innocents Infant mortality in Lugang (Taiwan)and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) - 290[-]12 Illegitimacy, adoption,and mortality among Girls in Penghu, 1906-1945 - 318[-]13 How reliable is Taiwan's colonial period demographic data? An empirical study using demographic indirect estimation techniques - 350[-]References - 378
