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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 43 (August 1983), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 43 (August 1983), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 42 (July 1983), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 42 (July 1983), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 41 (June 1983), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 41 (June 1983), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Women's Center Newsletter (Spring 1983), University Of Maine Women's Center Staff
Women's Center Newsletter (Spring 1983), University Of Maine Women's Center Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Patterns Of Infant Mortality In The Upper St. John Valley French Population: 1791-1838, Marcella H. Sorg, Beatrice C. Craig
Patterns Of Infant Mortality In The Upper St. John Valley French Population: 1791-1838, Marcella H. Sorg, Beatrice C. Craig
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of infant mortality patterns in a pre-industrial North American population, the Madawaska French of the upper St. John Valley. A synchronic approach was taken in examining a series of 320 infant deaths identified through family reconstitution. The infant mortality rate for the series is 132 per 1000, low compared to other pre-industrial populations. The large average completed family size of 11.34 is associated with short birth intervals averaging 21.9 months. Women who experience infant mortality were found to have significantly larger completed families that those who did not. Infant …