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The Mortality of Orphaned, Illegitimate and Abandoned Children from Colonial New Zealand Times

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The Mortality of Orphaned, Illegitimate and Abandoned Children from Colonial New Zealand Times
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Infant and child mortality has usually been looked at in socio-economic terms, while recent European studies have looked at the loss of a parent and illegitimacy as independent risk factors for early death. But did New Zealand’s new migrant population share these risk factors considering the extremely low child mortality rates and high life expectancy seen in New Zealand compared to Europe at the end of the 19th century? Reconstitution of families who had resided in either Tolaga Bay or Littl...

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Masters
Date created
2011
Creator
Wallace, Shirley
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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/6506

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